It having been a while since I last listened to We Shall All Be Healed I'd forgotten that from a production standpoint I really like it; from the bottle smash and sampled arguing in Slow West Vultures to the piano and keys sprinkled throughout and the fairly solid percussion elements (this is the second-last album before Jon Wurster comes on board).
I find it hard to say with certainty that it's my favourite post-boombox era of their albums as I did before but it's really great stuff.
Full Force Galesburg and The Coroner's Gambit are probably my favourite of their albums overall at this point tbh
Wait I didn't say Mountain Goats anywhere in this thread. This is about the Mountain Goats.
Anyway there are people who don't like All Up The Seething Coast and I can't imagine a more dogshit Mountain Goats take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLK5TaxxKM
The drummer on this album (a guy called Christopher McGuire apparently) is incredible on Cotton, it's a much more loose and expressive performance than I remembered.