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Transcendental Youth
The Mountain Goats
Transcendental Youth is the fourteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats. The album focuses on outcasts, recluses, the mentally ill, and others struggling in ordinary society. The album is loosely unified around a group of people living in Washington state.
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12 tracks · 39:07 · click to preview1
Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1
2:27
2
Lakeside View Apartments Suite
3:58
3
Cry for Judas
3:12
4
Harlem Roulette
3:23
5
White Cedar
3:05
6
Until I Am Whole
2:48
7
Night Light
3:59
8
The Diaz Brothers
2:45
9
Counterfeit Florida Plates
2:22
10
In Memory of Satan
4:01
11
Spent Gladiator 2
2:52
12
Transcendental Youth
4:10
Tender Buttons
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The Downward Spiral
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1997
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2020
Calling Out of Context
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2000
Teens of Denial
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2016
Alien Lanes
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Doolittle
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1989
In Rainbows
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2007
Kid A
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2000
Amnesiac
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2001
A Moon Shaped Pool
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2016
Last Splash
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2023
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