The Coroner's Gambit: Vinyl LP Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble and amid a flurry of

and amid a flurry of press attention

Unwishing Well is a eulogy for the buzz bands that crashed

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Laura Misch and Coby Sey appear on the album

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The Coroner's Gambit: Vinyl LP Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble and amid a flurry ofOriginally released in October 2000, The Coroners Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyners Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that years New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroners Gambit, 1999 passed without an