the Mountain Goats Announce New Album “Days”, Share New Single “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Feds”

By: Staff –

the Mountain Goats—John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster—announce their 24th full-length album, Days, out August 7th, 2026. To mark the announcement, the band is sharing its driving lead single “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” Stream it below.

“This album began life as Grunges, a sequel to Goths, after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’ A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how All Hail West Texas happened. These songs are loosely about the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days, each one a little further back than the next, sometimes miraculously seeming clearer as they recede and sometimes blurring into unrecognizable shapes which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes troubling. Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody, really. Nobody at all,” says John Darnielle.

The band has announced world tour dates through the end of 2026. The tour kicks off May 15 at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD and includes stops throughout North America, Europe, United Kingdom and concludes with stops at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA and Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY.

Days was produced by John Congleton and recorded at Sear Sound in Manhattan, still managed by the legendary Roberta Findlay. The sessions featured Rob Jost on bass and French horn, group backing vocals from Catherine Russsell, Jamie and Carolyn Leonhart, and layered backing vocals by Janis Siegal of The Manhattan Transfer on “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums.” Additionally, old friend Matt Nathanson contributed vocals to “Candlebox,” and Mikaela Davis added harp to “Going to Fennario.”

TOUR DATES:

05/15 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring

05/16 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater – SOLD OUT

05/17 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall

05/19 – Boston, MA @ Citizens House of Blues

05/21 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall

05/22 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Beer Garden

05/23 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre

05/24 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall – SOLD OUT

05/26 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville

05/28 – Lexington, KY @ Manchester Music Hall

05/29 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre

05/30 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club

05/31 – Charleston, SC @ Spoleto Festival USA

06/25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest

06/26 – Berwyn, IL @ Fitzgeralds Outdoors

07/10 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

08/08 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square ^

08/09 – Seattle, WA @ ZooTunes at Woodland Park Zoo *

08/15 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame *

08/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre

08/16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls

08/17 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Hall Ballroom

08/19 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom

08/20 – Litiz, PA @ Mickey’s Black Box

08/21 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva

08/22 – Durham, NC @ DPAC

10/05 – Helsinki, FI @ Kuudes Linja # – SOLD OUT

10/07 – Stockholm, SE @ Nalen #

10/08 – Oslo, NO @ Vulkan Arena #

10/10 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset

10/11 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol

10/12 – Hamburg, Germany @ Pop Seasons at Christianskirche

10/13 – Ghent, BE @ De Centrale #

10/14 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg #

10/16 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall #

10/18 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street #

10/19 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom #

10/21 – London, UK @ Hackney Church # – SOLD OUT

10/22 – London, UK @ Hackney Church #

10/23 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon #

11/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

12/10 – New York, NY @ Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall

12/11 – New York, NY @ Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall – SOLD OUT

^ w/ The Avett Brothers

* w/ The Hold Steady

# w/ Craig Finn

@ Expanded Line-Up

TRACK LIST: 

1. Song for Layne Staley

2. Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds

3. Shallow Grave

4. Candlebox

5. Annie Haslam Imperial Phase

6. Crying on Eddie Nash’s Grave

7. Days

8. Best Hard Rock Albums 2013

9. Going to Fennario

10. Woodstock

11. Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums

12. Last Day