Some of the most beloved Mountain Goats songs are the desperate, defiant ones, where everything is in the process of collapse. Darnielle started writing the latest Mountain Goats record, Days, as an attempt to do for 1990s grunge culture what Goths did for the Docs and eyeliner crowds of the ’80s—a redistributive history, bestowing attention on the unfairly forgotten. Where Goths has its jaunty song about being “Paid in Cocaine,” Days has “Woodstock,” a lush song in which we watch a young man “yell about cocaine/shirtless before God.” 0.0In addition to being heartbreaking and profound, Darnielle’s lyrics have always been very funny, and Days extends this sensibility to the music. It’s a short song, but there’s a whole life inside, traced from youthful boredom to mainstream success and down into doom.