We Shall All Be Healed

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We Shall All Be Healed
Studio album by The Mountain Goats
Released	February 3, 2004
Recorded	Bear Creek Studios Woodinville, Washington
Genre	Folk-rock
Label	4AD
Producer	John Vanderslice Scott Solter
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (6.9/10) 03 Feb 04 Robert Christgau (A) link
The Mountain Goats chronology
Tallahassee (2002) We Shall All Be Healed (2004) The Sunset Tree (2005)

We Shall All Be Healed is a 2004 album from John Darnielle's main project, The Mountain Goats. The album focuses on semi-fictional accounts of Darnielle's years as a teenager, particularly his friends' and acquaintances' experiences in California and in Portland, Oregon, as methamphetamine addicts. As The Mountain Goats' official website puts it: "All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now." Like Tallahassee, but unlike the rest of Darnielle's repertoire up to its release, "We Shall All Be Healed" was recorded with a full band in a recording studio, and produced by John Vanderslice, as opposed to The Mountain Goats' previous practice of recording at home on a boom box with, at most, one or two backup vocalists or a bassist. "Palmcorder Yajna" (the primary single), when played in concert, is often played with the backing of members of one or more of the opening acts on tour with The Mountain Goats. The song "Cotton" was featured in an episode of the television series Weeds.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Slow West Vultures" – 2:41
2. "Palmcorder Yajna" – 4:08
3. "Linda Blair Was Born Innocent" – 2:46
4. "Letter from Belgium" – 3:11
5. "Young Thousands" – 4:34
6. "Your Belgian Things" – 3:49
7. "Mole" – 4:32
8. "Home Again Garden Grove" – 3:15
9. "All Up the Seething Coast" – 3:45
10. "Quito" – 2:03
11. "Cotton" – 3:25
12. "Against Pollution" – 3:43
13. "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of" – 2:52

[edit] External links

• We Shall All Be Healed at MusicBrainz