July 6 - Moon Over Goldsboro

This is a lush dark landscape of a song. It reminded me of some of the early Mountain Goats songs, which was appropriate, as this album seems to be revisiting the places in retrospect that the early songs were experiencing as they happened. Fictional but not less real.

This is a ghost story. Every song about loneliness is a ghost story. Every song about guilt is a ghost story. We're haunted by places not being what they were, people still being there in a sense and being gone in every other sense. Someone can be a ghost while still in the same room as you. Someone can feel like they're there and still be a phantom.

We walk through the world that was, and we miss it. And we wonder to what extent it's gone because of us. Because of what we did.