{"id":12427,"date":"2012-09-19T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2012-09-19T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:53:16","slug":"watch-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-perform-in-memory-of-satan-from-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-09\/watch-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-perform-in-memory-of-satan-from-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Perform “In Memory of Satan” From New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

In support of their new album, Transcendental Youth<\/strong><\/a>, the marvelous Mountain Goats’<\/strong> frontman, John Darnielle<\/strong>, showed up on WNYC’s Soundcheck<\/strong> series to render a poignant solo-piano reading of their new song, In Memory of Satan<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Darnielle had this to say about the song recently for Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>:\u00a0 “Mid-tempo and piano-based, it’s a look at the process of someone becoming a borderline recluse, getting inside their head and looking out at a world that seems too much to take. Everyone has spent those years, or maybe entire seasons, indoors where you don’t really leave,” Darnielle said. “That’s when you go into the inner realms of the spirit. This guy’s in hiding, and it’s this most spiritual realm. That old saying holds here, that you can’t be in a cave unless there’s an exit, or else it’s a grave.”<\/p>\n

The song’s lyrics follow the Soundcheck performance below.<\/p>\n