Beat the Champ
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Beat the Champ is the fifteenth studio album by The Mountain Goats, released on April 7, 2015 on Merge Records. The release is a concept album on professional wrestling, though frontman John Darnielle has stated that several of its songs are "really more about death and difficult-to-navigate interior spaces than wrestling."

It is the first album to feature multi-instrumentalist and current member…

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Released
April 3rd, 2015
Type
Album
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Merge Records

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The A.V. Club (Noel Murray – April 7, 2015)B
Consequence of Sound (Collin Brennan – April 1, 2015)B
Pitchfork (Jeremy Gordon – April 6, 2015)6.6/10
Los Angeles Times (Randall Roberts – April 6, 2015)
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Last updated: April 13th, 2015

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