Review: Demons, imaginations run wild on Mountain Goats set

The new album from the Mountain Goats, “Dark in Here,” was recorded in 2020, that calamitous year of fear and mistrust

The Mountain Goats, “Dark in Here” (Merge) “Dark in Here” was recorded in 2020, that calamitous year of fear and mistrust. It shows. High anxiety fills the Mountain Goats' new album, the product of sessions held in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began. So forgive the band for thinking time might be running out. “Spores at play deep down in our lungs," frontman John Darnielle sings on the opening cut, “Parisian Enclave.”