The Coroner's Gambit

Studio album by the Mountain Goats

Released

October 17, 2000

Genre

Lo-fi

Length

43:00

the Mountain Goats chronology

Full Force Galesburg
(1997)

The Coroner's Gambit
(2000)

All Hail West Texas
(2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10 ^[2]
Splendid (ezine)	(favorable) ^[3]

The Coroner's Gambit is the fifth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on October 17, 2000 by Absolutely Kosher Records.

Recording

The album is mostly John Darnielle and his acoustic guitar, but it has sparse auxiliary instrumentation as well. Most of the songs were recorded on John's Panasonic RX-FT500 boom box, but due to either mechanical failure or desire for clearer sound quality, he used a 4-track recording machine for some tracks.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Jaipur"	3:13
2.	"Elijah"	3:07
3.	"Trick Mirror"	2:40
4.	"Island Garden Song"	2:27
5.	"The Coroner's Gambit"	2:55
6.	"Baboon"	2:16
7.	"Scotch Grove"	1:37
8.	"Horseradish Road"	2:28
9.	"Family Happiness"	2:57
10.	"Onions"	2:15
11.	"Bluejays and Cardinals"	3:03
12.	"Shadow Song"	2:45
13.	"There Will Be No Divorce"	2:51
14.	"Insurance Fraud #2"	3:02
15.	"The Alphonse Mambo"	2:44
16.	"We Were Patriots"	2:40
Total length:		43:00

Personnel

John Darnielle - vocals, guitar, production

References

External links

The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle Peter Hughes Jon Wurster

Albums	Zopilote Machine Sweden Nothing for Juice Full Force Galesburg The Coroner's Gambit All Hail West Texas Tallahassee We Shall All Be Healed The Sunset Tree Get Lonely Heretic Pride The Life of the World to Come All Eternals Deck Transcendental Youth Beat the Champ

Released demos	Come, Come To The Sunset Tree Heretic Pride Demos The Life of the World in Flux All Survivors Pack

Cassette releases	Taboo VI: The Homecoming The Hound Chronicles Transmissions to Horace Hot Garden Stomp Taking the Dative Yam, the King of Crops

EPs & singles	Songs for Petronius Chile de Árbol Beautiful Rat Sunset Philyra Songs for Peter Hughes Songs About Fire Nine Black Poppies New Asian Cinema Isopanisad Radio Hour On Juhu Beach Devil in the Shortwave Jam Eater Blues See America Right Palmcorder Yajna Letter from Belgium Dilaudid EP Babylon Springs EP Satanic Messiah

Collaborations	Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner) Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith) Tropical Depression EP (with Furniture Huschle) Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 (with John Vanderslice) Black Pear Tree EP (with Kaki King) Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)

Compilation albums	Protein Source of the Future...Now! Bitter Melon Farm Ghana The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp

Unreleased	Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg Jack and Faye

Former members	Franklin Bruno Richard Colburn Nora Danielson Lalitree Darnielle Alex Decarville Maggie Doyle Alastair Galbraith Erik Friedlander Christopher McGuire Scott Solter John Vanderslice Rachel Ware

Related articles	Discography

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