The Year's Best Music CT offers a rather bizarre roundup of the year's best music (99% of which none of us have ever heard of). Full Article at Challies Dot Com

Our main list of the year’s best albums doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s tallied from ballots by a group of writers, each of whom is given 100 points to distribute over their favorites. Full Article at The A.V. Club

John Darnielle’s latest release is a step back from the novelesque records for which he’s best known. It's been a long road for John Darnielle. Full Article at Splice Today

It's sometimes said about Morrissey that he is an artist without any casual fans, but this is an exaggeration. There are, at least, casual fans of The Smiths. I propose that John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats is the one to whom this truly applies. Full Article at New York Press

John Darnielle, the lead singer of the Mountain Goats, has a famously devoted following, and the band's new album, The Life of the World to Come, is teeming with religious references: Every song is named after a Bible verse. Full Article at Vulture

For years, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats has been mentioning religion in conversation. Now, with the release of The Life of the World to Come, he is giving sermons to a willing congregation. Full Article at Associated Content