All Eternals Deck

Studio album by the Mountain Goats

Released

March 29, 2011

Recorded

2010

Genre

folk rock, indie rock

Length

42:25

Label

Merge Records

Producer

Brandon Eggleston, John Congleton, Scott Solter, Erik Rutan

the Mountain Goats chronology

The Life of the World to Come
(2009)

All Eternals Deck
(2011)

Transcendental Youth
(2012)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Crackle Feedback	(8/10)^[1]
Pitchfork Media	(8.1/10)^[2]
Slant Magazine	^[3]
Spin	^[4]
Tiny Mix Tapes	^[5]

All Eternals Deck is the 13th studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on March 29, 2011 by Merge Records. "All Eternals Deck" refers to a fictional set of Tarot cards, the history and details of which are described in the album's liner notes.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John Darnielle.

All Eternals Deck
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Damn These Vampires"	3:24
2.	"Birth of Serpents"	3:08
3.	"Estate Sale Sign"	2:47
4.	"Age of Kings"	4:13
5.	"The Autopsy Garland"	2:50
6.	"Beautiful Gas Mask"	3:52
7.	"High Hawk Season"	2:56
8.	"Prowl Great Cain"	3:15
9.	"Sourdoire Valley Song"	3:38
10.	"Outer Scorpion Squadron"	2:31
11.	"For Charles Bronson"	3:01
12.	"Never Quite Free"	3:30
13.	"Liza Forever Minnelli"	3:20
Total length:		42:25

All Survivors Pack - limited edition demos cassette tape^[6]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Catherine Antrim’s Kid"
2.	"Beautiful Gas Mask"
3.	"Birth of Serpents"
4.	"The Autopsy Garland"
5.	"Estate Sale Sign"
6.	"Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece"
7.	"Sourdoire Valley Song"
8.	"Age of Kings"
9.	"High Hawk Season"
10.	"Never Quite Free"
11.	"For Charles Bronson"
12.	"Liza Forever Minnelli"

John Darnielle revealed in a concert on October 13th 2012 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg that not only is "Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece" his 'secret favorite song', but that it is about Lon Chaney Jr. and was inspired by his movie Indestructible Man.

Personnel

John Darnielle – vocals, guitar, keyboard
Peter Hughes – bass, backing vocals
Jon Wurster - drums
Yoed Nir - cello
Yuval Semo - organ, string arrangement
Bob Barone - steel guitar
Brandon Eggleston - production, mixing
Erik Rutan - production
John Congleton - production, mixing
Scott Solter - production, mixing
Brent Lambert - mastering
Marc Bessant - graphic design
Artbeats - photography

References

↑ "Crackle Feedback Review".
↑ "Pitchfork Review".
↑ "The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck | Music Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
↑ "SPIN Review".
↑ "Tiny Mix Tapes review".
↑ Darnielle, John (February 17, 2011). "Our New Tape". Retrieved March 30, 2011.

The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle Peter Hughes Jon Wurster

Albums	Zopilote Machine Sweden Nothing for Juice Full Force Galesburg The Coroner's Gambit All Hail West Texas Tallahassee We Shall All Be Healed The Sunset Tree Get Lonely Heretic Pride The Life of the World to Come All Eternals Deck Transcendental Youth Beat the Champ

Released demos	Come, Come To The Sunset Tree Heretic Pride Demos The Life of the World in Flux All Survivors Pack

Cassette releases	Taboo VI: The Homecoming The Hound Chronicles Transmissions to Horace Hot Garden Stomp Taking the Dative Yam, the King of Crops

EPs & singles	Songs for Petronius Chile de Árbol Beautiful Rat Sunset Philyra Songs for Peter Hughes Songs About Fire Nine Black Poppies New Asian Cinema Isopanisad Radio Hour On Juhu Beach Devil in the Shortwave Jam Eater Blues See America Right Palmcorder Yajna Letter from Belgium Dilaudid EP Babylon Springs EP Satanic Messiah

Collaborations	Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner) Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith) Tropical Depression EP (with Furniture Huschle) Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 (with John Vanderslice) Black Pear Tree EP (with Kaki King) Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)

Compilation albums	Protein Source of the Future...Now! Bitter Melon Farm Ghana The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp

Unreleased	Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg Jack and Faye

Former members	Franklin Bruno Richard Colburn Nora Danielson Lalitree Darnielle Alex Decarville Maggie Doyle Alastair Galbraith Erik Friedlander Christopher McGuire Scott Solter John Vanderslice Rachel Ware

Related articles	Discography

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