Happy Friday! Hex of Infinite Binding is a new EP of songs by the Mountain Goats, announced and released today on all digital music services.

Listen to & share Hex of Infinite Binding by the Mountain Goats now

From the desk of John Darnielle:

WELCOME WAYWARD TRAVELER TO THE HEX VORTEX. I used to release a whole bunch of EPs. I miss the general spiritual realm of the EP and am hereby centering an intention to spend more time thereat. These songs represent, in part, the first salvo of my resolve. “Almost Every Door” and “Song for Ted Sallis” were written at home in North Carolina sometime during the summer and recorded by Brandon Eggleston at Electrical Audio in Chicago during our three-night stand at Old Town School of Folk Music. “Tucson Fog” is a home recording from last December, things can get a little dark in December. “Hospital Reaction Shot” was produced & engineered by Chris Stamey at Modern Recording, Chapel Hill, NC; Chris also wrote the string arrangements and played bass and electric guitar. Percussion on “Almost Every Door” and “Song for Ted Sallis” by Matt Espy from Dead Rider, maximum respect. Only one of these songs is directly about death but the person or persons in all these songs will someday die. The death one, “Hospital Reaction Shot,” is drawn from a picture of Mickey Deans holding a press conference to inform the world of the death of Judy Garland, to whom he had been married for three months. Yet the press conference is a sham, because Judy Garland lives, as Ted Sallis lives, as do many others thought missing. They can often be found in the vortex shortly before sundown, plotting their return. We live in hope!

And in other recent surprises from John Darnielle and company, the band covered Bon Iver, Robin Trower, and a song from Godspell for Aquarium Drunkard’s esteemed Lagniappe Sessions. Listen now.

The Mountain Goats are currently on tour in Texas and the Southwest, after which they will head back to North Carolina for a break prior to playing two home state shows at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw later this fall.

The Mountain Goats on tour:
Sep 07 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
Sep 08 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
Sep 10 Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
Sep 11 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom [SOLD OUT]
Sep 12 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf [SOLD OUT]
Sep 13 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
Sep 14 Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s
Nov 30 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
Dec 01 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom