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The Life of the World to Come is The Mountain Goats' 2009 album of songs named after Bible verses, spread across a double LP and every bit as intimate as that concept suggests.
John Darnielle has always written about faith, doubt and survival, but here he made it explicit, building each song from a single passage of scripture and spinning it into a story about real people in hard moments. It is not a religious record so much as a deeply human one, using old texts as a lens for illness, grief, addiction and love. Released on 4AD, it features his longtime bandmate Peter Hughes on bass and drummer Jon Wurster, who had joined a couple of years earlier.
1 Samuel 15:23 opens the record with a quiet confession of regret, setting the tone for what follows. Psalms 40:2 is one of the most urgent, driving songs in the band's catalogue, while Genesis 30:3 is a tender, fragile love song that shows Darnielle at his most vulnerable. Hebrews 11:40 brings a stark, unsettling beauty of its own.
For longtime fans, this is one of the high points of a remarkable career. For newcomers, it is a moving introduction to one of indie rock's great storytellers.
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