- Record Label: Cadmean Dawn
- Release Date: Nov 7, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is the best Mountain Goats album in a decade, maybe even since Transcendental Youth.
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MojoDec 9, 2025A title that came to John Darnielle in a dream vividly interpreted as the score for a musical. [Feb 2026, p.90]
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Record CollectorDec 2, 2025Start casting the stage version now. [Christmas 2025, p.134]
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Nov 7, 2025It’s sumptuously crafted, full of gallows humour and – as with so much of Darnielle’s best work – delving below the surface reveals layers of deeper meaning about humanity, togetherness and the precious joys of being alive.
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UncutNov 7, 2025As disaster mounts for these ill-prepared moderns, the soft '70s New Orleans brass of "Through This Night" is among the musical balms. [Dec 2025, p.33]
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Nov 7, 2025This music confirms the Mountain Goats have talent that's on par with their ambitions, and this album is a thoughtful, dramatically satisfying experience.
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Nov 7, 2025For all the tumult of its premise, Through This Fire is a surprisingly pleasant listen—sweeping, mid-tempo, decorous even when the subject matter calls for chaos.
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Nov 18, 2025An unusually linear Mountain Goats record full of powerful moments that not even the eternally moving Darnielle can scrape into the whole it deserves.
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Nov 13, 2025Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan loses steam toward the end, but it’s a valiant effort nonetheless.
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Nov 12, 2025It’s definitely a more expansive palette, and not entirely to my taste, but I’ll defend any artist who takes a chance like this.