The Mountain Goats - Ghana

I fuckin love these.

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The Mountain Goats - Bitter Melon Farm

One of three Mountain Goats compilations, full of EP songs and other rare stuff. Everything by the Mountain Goats is good. This is especially good. Also can't go wrong when it ends with an Ace of Base cover.

and your arms were warm and that's all I remember (@256)

The Mountain Goats - First two cassettes

Taboo VI: The Homecoming

The Mountain Goats' first cassette. It's not exactly the highest quality recordings, even by the lo-fi standards of early Mountain Goats, but you take what you can get with stuff like this. It's good. Especially the "This Magic Moment" cover, "Going To Alaska," and "Ice Cream, Cobra Man." But none of it sounds too much like the rest of Darnielle's recordings. Download.

The Hound Chronicles

The Mountain Goats' second cassette. (I think.) Higher quality recordings than the tape above, better songs, and almost double the length. It feels like it was the first real Mountain Goats album, and Darnielle has even said that he never meant "Taboo VI" to be heard by anyone other than some friends and family...so there you have it. Download.

Of Montreal - Cherry Peel/The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower/The Early Four Track Recordings

Cherry Peel (1997)


Of Montreal's first album; Bar/None Records.

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The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower (1998)

A re-release of Of Montreal's first EP; Kindercore Records. Contains two bonus tracks not included on the original. Includes covers of Pete Townsend's "Disguises" and Yoko Ono's "I Felt Like Smashing My Head Through a Clear Glass Window."

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The Early Four Track Recordings (2001)


Pre-Cherry Peel recordings, released as a compilation in 2001. Kindercore Records.

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Captain #1-The Humble / Captain#1/Enoch-Color What You Want

Captain#1-The Humble (2007)


Athens-based Captain #1's sound is the product of Tim Denson, formerly of Starlite Motel. The Humble's tracks sparkle with not only twinkling acoustic guitars in open tunings, but glockenspiels, tambourines, maracas, and sometimes what sounds like a well-handled kazoo. Perfect low-key, mellow, indie pop.

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Captain #1/Enoch-Color What You Want (2005)

2006's Color What You Want is a split-EP from Captain #1 and Fort Myers, Florida's Enoch Bledsoe. Enoch's sound is very folky and sometimes aggressive, providing an interesting contrast but a beautiful accompaniment to Captain #1.
Tracks #1-5 belong to Tim Denson and Captain #1; tracks #7-11 are Enoch Bledsoe's. Track #6 is an instrumental featuring a harmonica, performed by both artists.

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti-Scared Famous

Psychedelic lo-fi at it's best.

Scared Famous manages to cram a mish-mash of '60's psychedelic, '70's disco beats, and an unrelenting pop hook. Originially released in 2002 as a double-album, Scared Famous/FF, it contained 19 songs, but was paired down to 17 (and with a re-arranged track order, strangely) with the re-release as a single album.

Ariel Pink was signed to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label in 2003, after passing on a CD-R of his music to them at a show, becoming the first artist signed to their label.

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