Today, the Mountain Goats announce their new album Bleed Out with a video for its opening track, “Training Montage.” The album, a cinematic experience inspired by action movies from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, was produced by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno. Due August 19, Bleed Out is available for pre-order now on “High-Velocity Spatter” (red marble) double Peak Vinyl, CD, and cassette in the Merge store or the Mountain Goats' band store.

Bleed Out’s lead single “Training Montage” lovingly documents the getting-ready-for-battle scene in any action movie regardless of provenance and loudly declares its intentions: “I’m doing this for revenge.” It sets the tone for everything that follows on Bleed Out, an album delivered with the urgency and desperation deserving of its narrators and circumstances.

Heavily informed and influenced by their historic settings, Bleed Out is all pent-up energy and explosion, executed by a bunch of friends who were mainly happy to be in a room together making loud noises. In January 2021, just weeks after John Darnielle had started writing, his bandmates Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster joined him at Betty's (Sylvan Esso's studio) in the woods near his home in Chapel Hill. Everything was finished inside a week.

Additionally, the Mountain Goats have announced a full-band US fall tour that kicks off in August. The band will also be doing duo tour dates this summer and hitting Europe and the UK in November with labelmate Carson McHone. All dates below.

the Mountain Goats on tour:
Jun 25 Durham, NC – Durham Bulls Athletic Park (That Music Fest)
Jul 09 Charleston, SC – Music Farm*
Jul 10 Jacksonville, FL – Intuition Ale Works*
Jul 11 St. Petersburg, FL – Palladium Theater*
Jul 12 Tallahassee, FL – The Moon*
Jul 14 Memphis, TN –  Minglewood Hall^
Jul 15 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway^
Jul 16 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s^
Jul 17 Wichita, KS – Wave^
Aug 28 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
Aug 29 Atlantic City, NJ – Anchor Rock Club
Aug 30 New York, NY – Webster Hall
Sep 02 Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre
Sep 03 Pawtucket, RI – The Met
Sep 04 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
Sep 07 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden
Sep 08 McKees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theatre
Sep 09 Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
Sep 10 Bloomington, IN – Bluebird Nightclub
Sep 11 Little Rock, AR – Little Rock Hall
Sep 13 Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
Sep 15 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
Sep 16 Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre
Sep 17 Fort Worth, TX – Tulips
Sep 18 New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s
Sep 20 Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Sep 21 Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre
Sep 22 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
Sep 23 Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Nov 10 Vienna, AT – WUK Foyer~
Nov 11 Berlin, DE – Columbia Theater~
Nov 12 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso~
Nov 14 Antwerp, BE – De Roma~
Nov 16 London, UK – Roundhouse~
Nov 17 Manchester, UK – Albert Hall~
Nov 18 Dublin, IE – Vicar Street~
* duo performance w/ Izzy Heltai
^ duo performance w/ Abby Hamilton
~ w/ Carson McHone