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CD REVIEW: 'Heretic Pride' another Mountain Goats storybook

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From: University Wire
Date: 20080220
Author:Julie Engler

Julie Engler
University Wire
02-20-2008
(Daily Egyptian) (UWIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Listening to a song by The Mountain Goats is like sitting around a campfire listening to a story.

John Darnielle is an imaginative storyteller, and each song has its own depth and reach into whatever topic he feels like writing about. "Heretic Price" follows that same acoustic-folk-storytelling formula perfectly.

Those not familiar with his group might have heard him on Aesop Rock's "None Shall Pass," performing on the nine-minute "Coffee." Darnielle can't be considered a rapper, but much like hip-hop, his ...

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