February 12 - Pure Gold

Another multi-instrumental track, which fills out the sound significantly. Having spent around six weeks in the world of early Mountain Goats there is something magical that I see happening when John is working with other people and suddenly the dimensions of his sound spill out in all sorts of new directions.

Lyrically this sits in comfortably uncomfortable ground for a Mountain Goats song, dealing as it does with someone seeing things others can't, omens that exist perfectly to them and may not exist elsewhere, things that make perfect internal sense and external chaos.

It's also about a Twilight Zone pinball machine. Things can be more than one thing.