The Sunset Tree

The Sunset Tree
The Sunset Tree
Studio album by the Mountain Goats
Released April 26, 2005
Recorded Praire Sun, Cotati, California
November 4, 2004 – November 15, 2004
Genre Folk-rock
Length 39:20
Label 4AD
Producer John Vanderslice
the Mountain Goats chronology
We Shall All Be Healed
(2004)
The Sunset Tree
(2005)
Get Lonely
(2006)

The Sunset Tree is the ninth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2005 by 4AD.

Contents

Notes

While We Shall All Be Healed focused on Darnielle's years as a teenager involved with other methamphetamine users, The Sunset Tree focuses on his childhood, and a recurring theme is domestic violence. The album title refers to a hymn Ernest sings as a toddler in a scene in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh; in the novel, Theobald beats Ernest for being unable to pronounce a hard C when singing the hymn.

Darnielle dedicates the album to his stepfather, by whom the album was "made possible". Many lyrics refer to Darnielle's abusive childhood – especially in the songs "This Year", "Dance Music", and "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod". The tone of the album is somber, dealing with Darnielle's longing for escape and his feelings of powerlessness, building up to the song "Lion's Teeth," which Darnielle has described as a "revenge fantasy".

The album is summed up in the final two songs: "Love, Love, Love," in which he notes the virtue and folly of doing things for reasons of love, and "Pale Green Things," in which he recalls a time his stepfather took him out to watch horses at a racetrack. Darnielle closes the song and the album with a lyric about his sister calling him to inform him of his stepfather's death.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]
Blender 4/5 stars[2]
Pitchfork Media (7.2/10)[3]
Robert Christgau (2 star Honorable Mention)(2 star Honorable Mention)(3 star Honorable Mention)[4]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[5]

Pitchfork Media placed The Sunset Tree at number 102 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John Darnielle

No. Title Length
1. "You or Your Memory"   2:15
2. "Broom People"   2:44
3. "This Year"   3:52
4. "Dilaudid"   2:10
5. "Dance Music"   1:57
6. "Dinu Lipatti's Bones"   3:18
7. "Up the Wolves"   3:27
8. "Lion's Teeth"   3:25
9. "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod"   3:22
10. "Magpie"   2:00
11. "Song for Dennis Brown"   3:57
12. "Love Love Love"   2:48
13. "Pale Green Things"   4:19
Total length:
39:20

Personnel

References

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