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When NOW featured Crystal Castles as their cover story two months ago, implicit in the whole article were three little words that get tossed around again and again when people talk about the band: next big thing.

It seems that any review of the latest Mountain Goats album, Get Lonely, requires at least one personal anecdote.

. Critical praise has been effusive for the album, which steps away from the storytelling fictions of John Darnielle's earlier work for a more autobiographical account of an abusive childhood, though dressed up in amazing lyricism and musical arrangements.

, given to Torontoist for review, contains scant amounts of the aforementioned ingredients. Not to say this is the Vince Carter of Mountain Goats albums - it's a good album and will receive a generous mark in our review - but there is a certain weirdness that plagues Mr Darnielle's most emotional output.