The Mountain Goats share “Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome,” the anthemic new single from their highly anticipated upcoming album Bleed Out, due August 19th on Merge Records. Watch and share the lyric video below.

Of the song, John Darnielle writes:

When I write an album that revolves around a theme, it usually takes two or three songs before I notice what's going on. There's always one song that becomes the ‘might as well dive all the way in’ song and on Bleed Out that song was “Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome,” written while watching a French action movie way past my normal bedtime. Once I had the chorus of this one I started asking myself the kinds of questions that usually end up shaping the album: What if I just wrote all the songs on guitar? What if I leaned into the uptempo ones? In recent years I shy away from the fist-punch no-brakes anthemic style but here I figured, you know, no point just wading around in blood if I'm already in knee-deep.

Last month, the band announced Bleed Out, a cinematic experience inspired by action movies from the 60s, 70s and 80s produced by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, with its energetic lead single “Training Montage,” which received praise from the New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR, SPIN, Consequence, Stereogum, Paste, UPROXX, Brooklyn Vegan, and Under The Radar, among others.

The Mountain Goats are currently on the road on a duo tour. Dates also include a full-band US fall tour that kicks off in August, and Europe and the UK shows in the fall. All dates below.

the Mountain Goats on tour:
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
Aug 31 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