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Label: Merge
Originally released 2000
The Coroner’s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner’s Omaha, Nebraska studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest after he moved to Ames. The mix of home and studio recordings grants The Coroner’s Gambit a thrilling sense of immediacy, its sharply drawn characters and the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy representing a breakthrough for Darnielle as a practitioner of the full-length album. It is an early masterpiece, an introspective epic that further burnishes Darnielle’s reputation as one of our greatest songwriters, one whose gift for confessional fabulism knows few rivals.
Track listing:
- Jaipur
- Elijah
- Trick Mirror
- Island Garden Song
- The Coroner’s Gambit
- Baboon
- Scotch Grove
- Horseradish Road
- Family Happiness
- Onions
- "Bluejays and Cardinals”
- Shadow Song
- There Will Be No Divorce
- Insurance Fraud #2
- The Alphonse Mambo
- We Were Patriots