May 9 - Alpha Rats Nest

Sometimes things creep up on you. They become true over a course of enough time that by the time you realise it you're realising what has happened not what is happening. So it is with this song and the realisation that Mountain Goats have gone from being a band of inscrutable, impenetrable lyrics to being a band of equally inscrutable but deeply accessible lyrics.

This joyful bitter song is just as much of an expression of poisoned joy as the rest of this concept album, bus its odd wordplay seems calibrated to exactly hit me. I don't immediately know what all of it means, but god damn if I don't know how it feels.

Simple joys are sometimes the greatest. As are simple horrors.