"Up they come, gone translucent."

I'm blogging on The Mountain Goats' new album All Eternals Deck until I feel like stopping.

When you see the song title "Outer Scorpion Squadron," you might expect something about spacemen, or maybe a story about fighting giant arthropods in the old west. What you probably wouldn't expect is a quiet meditation on a man's simultaneously nurturing and combative relationship with his most painful memories. But that quiet meditation is exactly what you get, and this song has become one of my favorites in the Mountain Goats catalog. It seems that you could think of "Outer Scorpion Squadron" as an epilogue to The Sunset Tree.