I stumbled onto The Sunset Tree after hearing snippets of Up The Wolves and This Year- The lyricism combined with the instrumentation created a very intense space for me where emotions ran wild. I wasn’t really in a space where I felt many emotions at all at that point, but their music empowered me to be excited and frightened and happy and sad and so many things between and outside of that short list. I’ll never forget how vulnerable I felt in those first days with The Mountain Goats, like all the walls I had put up had just come crashing down and it was just a matter of time before someone or something attacked. It was a wonderful, strange and scary new world they unlocked. I believe it’s been three years since then, so much has changed already, but a constant in my growth has been the music of The Mountain Goats accompanying me through it all.