May 5th - Southwood Plantation Road

A secret small love of mine: songs where someone sings "la la la la"

We're wandering still further into Tallahassee, reaching what might be thought of as an upswing in the dysfunctional relationship that is this couple. There is happiness here, albeit a desperate happiness kicking to stay afloat. "I am not gonna lose you, we are gonna stay married" is a line not of affirmation but of a death grip on what it thinks joy is.

And so the weird pop of this journey into one of the first fully orchestrated Mountain Goats albums continues, even as the relationship it depicts damages itself from repeated blows.