The Mountain Goats singer and novelist is using his new novel to interrogate his country’s politics. He talks about ‘castle doctrine’, making an album about his abusive stepfather and why he’s a sucker for things that make him cry
John Darnielle, the singer-songwriter of cult indie rock favourites the Mountain Goats, has a way with words. Fans hear in his lyrics whatever they feel but can’t express. Among the ones I have heard roared back to him at gigs: “People say friends don’t destroy one another, what do they know about friends?”
“I actually think that they’re not your friends if they destroy you,” he tells me from his home in Durham, North Carolina. “But the function of a line like that is that, well, that’s how it feels sometimes.” Continue reading...
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