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Title: Funny and Improved
Review: The Mountain Goats used much better equipment to record this latest CD. I enjoyed this CD, but I felt that there was too much of a distinct variation stylistically. Songs like "No Children" are great and they have dark and morbid lyrics accompanied by an uplifting tune. "Tallahassee" is a soothing song, but I was not a big fan of "Oceanographer's Choice" and "See America Right" because they sound like really badly done acoustic screamo. If you were a Mountain Goats fan before this CD, you will love it. There's a very likely chance that you will like the Mountain Goats(at least their slower paced material) if you like bands like Iron & Wine. Their more upbeat songs that are nice are "First Few Desperate Hours" and "Southwood Plantation Road." Overall, the CD is worth the money. I hope that the Mountain Goats continue to make CDs like this because they are a large overall improvement over most of their other CDs.
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