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John Darnielle
Bloomington, United States
John Darnielle is credited on 140 releases across 82 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1991–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
140
Pressings credited
82
Albums
4
Decades active
268
In collections
Biography
John Darnielle (; born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American indie folk band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. Since starting the band in 1991, he has gained a cult following and is known for his prolific output and literary lyrics. He has written three novels: Wolf in White Van (2014), Universal Harvester (2017), and Devil House (2022).
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Credited work
140 releases · 82 albums · active 1991–2025
- Performance · 279
- Other credits · 42
- Engineering · 6
- Production · 1
Studios: Prairie Sun Recording Studios · Tiny Telephone · Tarbox Road Studios · Bear Creek Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Sunset Tree
2005
Tallahassee
2003
None Shall Pass
2007
All Hail West Texas
2002
Beat The Champ
2015
Goths
2017
Transcendental Youth
2012
Get Lonely
2006
Bleed Out
2022
Getting Into Knives
2020
All Eternals Deck
2011
We Shall All Be Healed
2004
Dark In Here
2021
Heretic Pride
2008
Jenny From Thebes
2023
In League With Dragons
2019
Majesty Shredding
2010
The Coroner's Gambit
2000
We Don't Have Each Other
2014
The Life Of The World To Come
2009
The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 1 And 2
2020
Satanic Messiah EP
2008
Sweden
1995
Beautiful Rat Sunset
1994
Frequent collaborators
- The Mountain Goats
- Various
- Number One Cup
- Superchunk
- Howard Hughes (2)
- Nothing Painted Blue
- Arms Aloft
- Pharaoh (9)
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