“Training Montage”, The Mountain Goats

This way: Training Montage

If you're a Mountain Goats fan who's missed the white-knuckle intensity of his earlier work, "Training Montage" — the first single from Bleed Out, provides a bliss-inducingly anthemic payoff. Bleed Out will be yet another concept album, but its theme lends itself to a bit more intensity: "I got this idea to write a bunch of songs where they were all uptempo mini-action movies," Darnielle writes in a press statement. "Plots, characters, heists, hostages, questionable capers, getaway cars, all that stuff. Gas pedal glued to the floor. Eventually, as you might guess I wanted at least one song where the tempo relaxed a little and that's the title track but otherwise, buckle up." 

[Spotify] Training Montage