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In our latest Digital Cover Story, John Darnielle talks about Greek tragedies, Texas and the latest Mountain Goats album, 'Jenny from Thebes.'

In her column Flirted With You All My Life, Niko Stratis writes about the Mountain Goats and how tattoos tell stories of what we've built.

From 'Zopilote Machine' to the newly released 'Jenny from Thebes,' we've ranked all 22 of The Mountain Goats albums from worst to best.

From 'Zopilote Machine' to the newly released 'Jenny from Thebes,' we've ranked all 22 of The Mountain Goats albums from worst to best.

Every music lover knows that there are some artists who don’t connect with you, no matter how much you try. But as I’ve learned over time as a critic, you can find inroads to appreciating artists and even whole genres that don’t initially appeal to you—for instance, by investigating their cultural contexts, and trying to open your ears to the ways their core audiences hear them. It’s trickier with an artist beloved by people whose tastes you tend to share, whose music doesn’t stray far from what you already like. These more elusive distastes don’t sustain the same exploratory cu...