The Mountain Goats previewed their forthcoming Getting Into Knives LP by issuing the single “Picture Of My Dress.” Getting Into Knives is set for release via Merge Records on October 23.
The song was inspired by a tweet from poet Maggie Smith:
Photo essay that won’t happen: Divorced woman drives her rumpled c. 2005 wedding dress across the country and takes photos of it in various locations. It’s a metaphorical “Weekend at Bernie’s” sans stapled-on toupee and sunglasses, because the dead thing is the marriage.
— Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet) December 20, 2018
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle saw the tweet and responded with the title:
this would be a song called “Picture of My Dress” imo
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 1, 2019
Darnielle and company then got down to work:
update: I like to work pic.twitter.com/Yqd5Fc9xzo
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 1, 2019
Getting Into Knives was recorded with producer Matt Ross-Spang at the historic Sam Phillips Recording facility in Memphis. Darnielle described “Picture Of My Dress” as, “a pop-country song that’s still identifiably the Mountain Goats, universally relatable but still a little cracked.”
Stream “Picture Of My Dress” below:
The Mountain Goats also announced a pair of livestreamed concerts. The full-band pay-per-view broadcasts were captured at Manifold Recording in Pittsboro, North Carolina. No repeats were played. The Jordan Lake Sessions performances premiere at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on October 22 and 29 via NoonChorus.
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