The Mountain Goats

The Spokane Symphony writes:

The Mountain Goats’ latest album Bleed Out, inspired by frontman John Darnielle’s pandemic winter spent watching action movies, explores the allure and futility of revenge, delivered with urgency and desperation. Bleed Out could be all one movie, from the opening training montage to the demise in the elegiac closing title track. Songs like “Make You Suffer,” “First Blood,” “Hostages,” and “Need More Bandages” do what they say on the tin, telling typically vivid, deliberately recognizable vignet ...