Stephen Colbert joins The Mountain Goats to carry out “This 12 months”: Watch
Two months in the past, The Mountain Goats launched their seventeenth (!) studio album, In League with Dragons. Final night time, they appeared on the Late Present ostensibly to assist the brand new effort, however Stephen Colbert had intentions of his personal. Along with the Dragons reduce “Sicilian Crest”, the host requested the John Darnielle-led outfit to play “This 12 months” off 2005’s The Sundown Tree simply so he may sing alongside.
Introducing the efficiency, Colbert stated the band’s new file “is a good album, however this subsequent music will not be on that album, as a result of I requested them to play this music for me as a result of it’s one in every of my favourite songs of theirs.” Because the Mountain Goats went into “This 12 months”, it appeared like it might be a simple rendition of a alternative throwback observe, till Colbert himself got here bouncing onto the stage for the refrain. He took the second verse all by himself and traded off with Darnielle on the bridge, admirably maintaining with the singer’s distinctive lyrical cadence.
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For the present correct, the band delivered the ultimate tune off the Dungeons & Dragons-themed In League with Dragons, “Sicilian Crest”. With lyrics projected in ancient-looking brush hand script behind them, the four-piece labored by means of the tension-filled quantity, contrasting the highly effective, melodious grand piano with Darnielle’s craving vocal.
Watch each the web-exclusive “This 12 months” efficiency and “Sicilian Crest” under.
In continued assist of In League with Dragons, the band will kick off the autumn leg of their year-long tour on the finish of August. Get tickets right here.
Beneath, revisit Darnielle’s look on the one-year anniversary episode of This Should Be the Gig.
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