# The Mountain Goats discography

The Mountain Goats are an American, Durham, North Carolina–based band, led by American singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Darnielle began recording in 1991, and is known for his highly literate lyrics and (until 2002) his lo-fi recording style. The Mountain Goats' albums have featured a constantly changing line-up of musicians, with Darnielle the only constant; when performing live, the band commonly comprises only Darnielle backed by Peter Hughes on bass guitar and Jon Wurster playing drums. Their discography consists of 22 studio albums, four compilation albums, three live albums, ten demo albums, 18 solo extended plays, six collaborative extended plays, and 24 singles. In addition, three unreleased albums circulate amongst collectors.

## Albums
### Studio albums

List of studio albums with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Indie | AUS | SCO | UK Sales | UK Indie |
| Zopilote Machine | Released: July 11, 1994 Label: Ajax, 3 Beads of Sweat Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sweden | Released: August 7, 1995 Label: Shrimper Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nothing for Juice | Released: August 19, 1996 Label: Ajax Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Full Force Galesburg | Released: June 10, 1997 Label: Emperor Jones Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Coroner's Gambit | Released: October 17, 2000 Label: Absolutely Kosher Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| All Hail West Texas | Released: February 19, 2002 Label: Emperor Jones Format: CD, vinyl | 140 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tallahassee | Released: November 5, 2002 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| We Shall All Be Healed | Released: February 3, 2004 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Sunset Tree | Released: April 26, 2005 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Get Lonely | Released: August 22, 2006 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | 193 | 19 | — | — | — | — |
| Heretic Pride | Released: February 19, 2008 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | 194 | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| The Life of the World to Come | Released: October 6, 2009 Label: 4AD Format: CD, vinyl | 110 | 14 | — | — | — | — |
| All Eternals Deck | Released: March 29, 2011 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl | 72 | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| Transcendental Youth | Released: October 2, 2012 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl | 86 | 16 | — | — | — | — |
| Beat the Champ | Released: April 7, 2015 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl | 65 | 5 | — | — | — | — |
| Goths | Released: May 19, 2017 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl | 89 | 4 | — | 85 | — | 25 |
| In League with Dragons | Released: April 26, 2019 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl | 110 | 6 | — | 65 | 87 | 38 |
| Songs for Pierre Chuvin | Released: April 10, 2020 Label: Merge Format: Cassette, digital, vinyl | 152 | 19 | 86 | 13 | 21 | 5 |
| Getting Into Knives | Released: October 23, 2020 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital | 162 | 34 | — | — | — | 44 |
| Dark in Here | Released: June 25, 2021 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital | — | 40 | — | — | 73 | 31 |
| Bleed Out | Released: August 19, 2022 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital | — | 37 | — | 73 | 67 | 22 |
| Jenny from Thebes | Released: October 27, 2023 Label: Merge Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital | — | — | — | — | — | 48 |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US Sales | US Folk | AUS |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 1 & 2 | Released: December 4, 2020 Label: Merge Format: digital | 59 | 9 | 90 |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 3 & 4 | Released: November 5, 2021 Label: Merge Format: digital | 89 | — | — |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 5 | Released: November 18, 2022 Label: Merge Format: digital | — | — | — |

### Compilation albums

| No. | Name | Date | Label | Format |
| 1 | Protein Source of the Future...Now! | 1999 | Ajax | CD |
| 2 | Bitter Melon Farm | 1999 | Ajax | CD |
| 3 | Ghana | 2002 | 3 Beads of Sweat | CD |
| 4 | The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp | 2012 | Shrimper | CD |

### Cassette releases & Demo albums

| Name | Date | Label | Format |
| Taboo VI: The Homecoming | 1991 | Shrimper | Cassette |
| The Hound Chronicles | 1992 | Shrimper | Cassette |
| Transmissions to Horace | 1993 | Sonic Enemy | Cassette |
| Hot Garden Stomp | 1993 | Shrimper | Cassette |
| Taking the Dative | 1994 | Car in Car | Cassette |
| Yam, the King of Crops | 1994 | Oska | Cassette |
| Come, Come to The Sunset Tree | 2005 | Self-released | LP |
| Heretic Pride Demos | 2008 | 4AD | Digital download |
| The Life of the World in Flux | 2009 | 4AD | CD |
| All Survivors Pack | 2011 | Merge | Cassette |

## Extended plays

| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | EP details | US Indie | AUS |
| Songs for Petronius | Released: 1992 Label: Shrimper Formats: 7" | — | — |
| Chile de Árbol | Released: 1993 Label: Ajax Formats: 7" | — | — |
| Beautiful Rat Sunset | Released: 1994 Label: Shrimper Formats: 10", CD, digital download | — | — |
| Philyra | Released: 1994 Label: Theme Park Formats: 7" | — | — |
| Songs for Peter Hughes | Released: 1995 Label: Sonic Squid Formats: 7" | — | — |
| Songs About Fire | Released: 1995 Label: Cassiel Formats: 7" | — | — |
| Nine Black Poppies | Released: 1995 Label: Emperor Jones Formats: CD, digital download | — | — |
| New Asian Cinema | Released: 1998 Label: Yoyo Formats: 12", digital download | — | — |
| Isopanisad Radio Hour | Released: 2000 Label: Yoyo Formats: 12", digital download | — | — |
| On Juhu Beach | Released: 2001 Label: Nursecall Formats: MiniCD, digital download | — | — |
| Devil in the Shortwave | Released: 2002 Label: Yoyo Formats: 12", digital download | — | — |
| Dilaudid | Released: March 21, 2005 Label: 4AD Formats: Digital download | — | — |
| Babylon Springs EP | Released: April 3, 2006 Label: 4AD Formats: CD, digital download | — | 86 |
| Satanic Messiah | Released: 2008 Label: Self-released Formats: 2x7", digital download | — | — |
| Selected Goths in Ambient | Released: May 19, 2017 Label: Merge Formats: 12" (exclusive with pre-order for Goths) | — | — |
| Marsh Witch Visions | Released: October 6, 2017 Label: Merge Formats: Digital download | — | — |
| Hex of Infinite Binding | Released: September 7, 2018 Label: Merge Formats: Digital download | 44 | — |
| Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session | Released: November 30, 2018 Label: Merge Formats: Digital download | — | — |

### Split EPs

| Title | EP details |
| Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner) | Released: 1994 Label: Sing, Eunuchs! Formats: 7" |
| Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith) | Released: 1995 Label: Walt Formats: 7" |
| Tropical Depression EP (with Furniture Huschle) | Released: 1996 Label: Little Mafia Formats: 7" |
| Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 (with John Vanderslice) | Released: 2003 Label: Bedside Formats: 7" |
| Black Pear Tree (with Kaki King) | Released: 2008 Label: Cadmean Dawn Formats: 12" |
| Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice) | Released: 2009 Label: Cadmean Dawn Formats: 12" |
| Takin' It Easy / Good Morning / Revolution Blues / Shot In The Dark (with Mikal Cronin, Superchunk, and Mount Moriah) | Released: February 2014 Label: Merge Formats: 2x7" |

## Singles

| Title | Year | Album |
| "Jam Eater Blues" (b/w "Store" and "Straight Six") | 2002 | Non-album single |
| "See America Right" (b/w "New Chevrolet in Flames") | 2002 | Tallahassee |
| "Palmcorder Yajna" (b/w "Butter Teeth") | 2003 | We Shall All Be Healed |
| "Letter from Belgium" (b/w "Nova Scotia") | 2004 | We Shall All Be Healed |
| "Steal Smoked Fish" / "In The Shadow Of The Western Hills" | 2012 | Transcendental Youth |
| "Who You Are" (Google Play exclusive) | 2014 | Non-album single |
| "Blood Capsules" / "Dub Capsules" | 2015 | Beat the Champ |
| "Rain in Soho" | 2017 | Goths |
| "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds" | 2017 | Goths |
| "From the Lake Trials" | 2017 | Non-album singles |
| "Song for Sasha Banks" | 2018 | Non-album singles |
| Welcome to Passaic "Passaic, 1975" b/w "Get High And Listen To The Cure" | 2019 | In League with Dragons |
| "Younger" | 2019 | In League with Dragons |
| "Sentries In The Ambush" / "Divided Sky Lane" | 2019 | In League with Dragons |
| "Get Famous" | 2020 | Getting Into Knives |
| "As Many Candles as Possible" | 2020 | Getting Into Knives |
| "Picture of My Dress" | 2020 | Getting Into Knives |
| "Mobile" | 2021 | Dark in Here |
| "The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums" | 2021 | Dark in Here |
| "Dark in Here" | 2021 | Dark in Here |
| "Training Montage" | 2022 | Bleed Out |
| "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" | 2022 | Bleed Out |
| "Mark on You" | 2022 | Bleed Out |

## Other appearances

| Name | Date | Label | Song contributed |
| Back to the Egg, Asshole | 1991 | Shrimper | "Wild Palm City (aka Within You, Without You)" |
| A Munchies Kinda Christmas | 1992 | Sonic Enemy | "The Pieman (live)" |
| Pawnshop Reverb | 1992 | Shrimper | "The Window Song" |
| Hard Core Acoustic | 1993 | Shrimper | "Going to Maine" |
| I Like Walt | 1994 | Walt | "Noche del Guajolote" |
| You and What Army? | 1994 | Sing Eunuchs | "Going to Bangor" |
| Howl...A Farewell Compilation of Unreleased Songs | 1994 | Glitterhouse/Zuma | "Against Agamemnon" |
| I Present This | 1994 | Union Pole | "Rain Song" |
| Those Pre-Phylloxera Years | 1994 | Box Dog Sound | "Faithless Bacchant Song" |
| The Basement Tapes: Live Recordings at KSPC 1989–1995 | 1995 | KSPC | "The Anglo-Saxons" |
| The Long Secret | 1995 | Harriet | "Duke Ellington" |
| Corkscrewed | 1995 | Theme Park | "Flight 717: Going To Denmark" and "The Admonishing Song" |
| Cool Beans #4 | 1995 | Cool Beans | "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" |
| Fast Forward 2 | 1995 | Brinkman | "Noctifer Birmingham" |
| The Wheel Method | 1995 | Pottery | "Song for an Old Friend" |
| The Wedding Record | 1995 | Walt | "Going To Port Washington" |
| Our Salvation Is in Hand | 1995 | Theme Park | "Hand Ball" and "Alpha Omega" |
| Goar #11 | 1995 | Goar | "Creature Song" and "Pure Sound" |
| Cyanide Guilt Trip | 1996 | Cactus Gum | "Leaving Home" |
| Dog So Large I Cannot See Past It | 1996 | Dark Beloved Cloud | "Snow Song" |
| In Release City | 1996 | Slowball | "Black Molly" |
| Hey Dan K. | Unreleased | Ajax | "Going to Kirby Sigston" |
| We'll Sail Out Far... Maybe a Little Too Far... | 1997 | Apartment | "Please Come Home to Hamngatan" |
| Object Lessons: Songs About Products | 1998 | Inconspicuous | "Golden Boy" |
| Acuarela Songs | 2001 | Acuarela | "Saigon Shrunken Panorama" |
| Gold Kiss Gala: I'll Wed You | 2001 | Dark Beloved Cloud | "Un Reve Plus Long Que La Nuit" |
| Comes with a Smile 11: Hope Isn't a Word | 2004 | Comes with a smile | "Beat the Devil" |
| Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek | 2005 | Summersteps Records | "White Box" (Jandek cover) |
| The Believer 2005 CD | 2005 | The Believer | "Pet Politics" (Silver Jews cover) |
| Like A Version 2 | 2006 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | "Wild World" (The Birthday Party cover) |
| n/a (specially commissioned song) | 2008 | Weekend America | "Down to the Ark" |
| Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! | 2009 | Merge Records | "Drug Life" (East River Pipe cover) |
| Stroke – Songs for Chris Knox | 2009 | Flying Nun | "Brave" (Chris Knox cover) |
| Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of WCKR SPGT (A 20th Anniv. Shrimper Comp.) | 2010 | Shrimper | "Predator Eyes" |
| A.V. UNDERCOVER | 2011 | A.V. UNDERCOVER Studio | "Boxcar" (Jawbreaker cover) |
| Our First 100 Days | 2017 | Secretly Group | "Etruscans" |
| Almost Live From Joyful Noise | 2017 | Joyful Noise Recordings | "From the Lake Trials" |
| Tick, Tick... Boom! (film) | 2021 | Netflix | "Only Takes a Few (bonus track)" (Jonathan Larson cover) |

## Unreleased

| Name | Date | Label | Format |
| Nall's Picks | 1993 | Unreleased | N/A |
| Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg | 1995 | Unreleased | N/A |
| Jack and Faye | 1996 | Unreleased | 7" |