March 13 - An Inscription at Salonae

The rhythm of this reminded me of Santa Monica by Everclear, although that's where the similarity ended. It's a wonderfully calm and matter of fact delivery for lyrical material that starts in the mythological and goes upwards from there.

Often John sits at points in the alignment that are directly between history, mythology, and religion, and is good enough at allusion to make the exact positioning a matter of some nuance. This definitely falls into a human area, almost colloquial, with a story of a small and collapsing relationship in a time of victory and defeat and celebration and sacrifice. It's triumphal and horrible and a small human moment.

It's also to this point one of the fullest dounds that we've had from a Mountain Goats songs. Two voices and three instruments, they're almost a traditional band at this point. We'll have to see what happens from here.