It's fun when John Darnielle spreads genre wings, whether talking metal in Decibel, guesting on an Aesop Rock jam, or upping the instrumentation during his 4AD tenure, but we've always been most fond of the Mountain Goats when dude wails ceaselessly on that trusty guitar, letting loose drill sargeant yowls that somehow add up to smart, funny, touching, emphatic, excellently ...