ALL ETERNALS DECK

ALL ETERNALS DECK

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The Mountain Goats' 2011 album is called <i>All Eternals Deck</i>, which refers to an apocryphal tarot deck."The songs cluster around themes of hidden things and the dread that hidden things inspire," says singer/songwriter John Darnielle, "but also the excitement, the attraction, the magnetic draw that scary unknown hidden things exert." The band approached recording sessions for <i>All Eternals Deck</i> as commando raids on multiple studios with several producers. "We wanted to see how disparate seasons and moods and locations and producers would play out in the songs," explains Darnielle.