This week, you can test drive the Mountain Goats’ new album Goths before it hits stores worldwide on Friday! NPR First Listen premieres the group’s 16th full-length today, saying, “Darnielle once again takes a conceptual detour. As its title suggests, it’s about growing up goth—about establishing a place for yourself among other outcasts—but it also finds the band shedding guitars and adding a fourth permanent member in multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas… For John Darnielle, goth isn’t a sound or a style so much as a state of mind: a source of comfort and connection for the young and lost, sure, but it needn’t leave your side as you age, either.”

On release day, tune in to the Mountain Goats’ page on Facebook at 2pm ET for a live video performance from the band. In case you missed it, John Darnielle hosted another live event back in February, performing and discussing “Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds” from Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco.

The Mountain Goats have also announced their first European shows in years, beginning October 5 in Leeds (natch). The band’s North American tour begins next week in Atlanta. Tickets are on sale now for all shows—and moving fast—so grab yours today!

Check out NPR’s interview The Mountain Goats On Growing Up, And Growing Older, In Goth, and pre-order Goths now with special bundle options in the Merge store, or via your favorite digital outlet. The limited-edition deluxe vinyl is still available for pre-order at select stores in the US and the UK but will also be available at independent record stores beginning Friday and at the merch table on tour.

The Mountain Goats on tour:
May 22 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
May 23 Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
May 25 Birmingham, AL – Saturn
May 26 New Orleans, LA – The Republic
May 27 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
May 28 Dallas, TX – Trees
May 31 Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theater
Jun 01 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Jun 02 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Jun 04 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
Jun 05 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
Jun 23 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre ^
Jun 24 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre ^ 
Jun 26 New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall ^
Jun 27 Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion ^ 
Jun 28 Providence, RI – Columbus Theatre
Jun 30 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion ^
Jul 01 Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music ^
Jul 02 Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center ^
Jul 03 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
Jul 05 Papillion, NE – Sumtur Amphitheater ^
Jul 06 Des Moines, IA – Wooley’s 
Jul 07 Saint Paul, MN – The Palace Theatre ^
Jul 08 Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
Jul 09 Bloomington, IL – Castle Theatre
Jul 11 Sioux Falls, SD – The Washington Pavilion ^
Jul 12 St. Louis, MO – Peabody Opera House ^
Jul 13 Oklahoma City, OK – ACM@UCO Performance Lab
Jul 14 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
Oct 05 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club *
Oct 06 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club (SOLD OUT) * 
Oct 08 Dublin, IE – Button Factory *
Oct 09 Glasgow, UK – Glasgow Art School *
Oct 11 London, UK – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire *
Oct 12 Brighton, UK – The Haunt *
Oct 13 Utrecht, NL – De Helling *
Oct 15 Copenhagen, DE – Pumpehuset *
Oct 16 Stockholm, SE – Debaser Strand * 
Oct 17 Oslo, NO – John Dee *
^ w/ Jason Isbell
* duo performance