Bleed Out
by The Mountain Goats

Bleed Out by The Mountain Goats
Year: 2022
Release date: 2022-08-19
Overall rank: 18,962nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 34 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2022 (325th)
Award Top albums of the 2020s (1,635th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,962nd)

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The Mountain Goats bestography

Bleed Out is ranked 16th best out of 38 albums by The Mountain Goats on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Mountain Goats is The Sunset Tree which is ranked number 1437 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,177.

The Mountain Goats album bestography « Higher ranked (18,810th)
Get Lonely
This album (18,962nd)
Bleed Out
Lower ranked (19,707th) »
Heretic Pride

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Bleed Out rankings

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Overall rank: 18,962nd | 2020s rank: 1,635th | 2022 rank: 325th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 34 votes)
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12/02/2025 00:51 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,13382/100
 
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11/03/2024 10:56 patmull  Ratings distribution  56075/100
 
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01/17/2024 14:42 Stehako  Ratings distribution  24474/100
 
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65/100
From 09/18/2022 01:52 | #289744
generally inconsistent and a bit boring, but has a good sound which exemplified on a few songs.
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From 08/31/2022 12:44 | #289176
Some of John Darnielle's best songs in a while. All the lead singles for Bleed Out remain standouts, and a few more album tracks, namely Extraction Point, Guys on Every Corner, and Hostages are all well crafted pieces. The production in particular on Bleed Out is really well executed, with the band congregating at Sylvan Esso's studio in North Carolina, and helmed by Albini production alumni Anna Bognanno (Bully). One might find this high clarity, clean production style a little unfitting for Mountain Goats, but I think it allows his songwriting to shine through more cleanly (full respect though to the band's lo-fi origins). To rationalise: theres never anything especially radical happening instrumentally with Mountain Goats, it's all in the lyrics and delivery. A 4-track might help with "rawness," but the writing is more essential in accomplishing that and hearing it unencumbered – I feel – is where Darnielle has worked best. In any case, John is always writing the same batch of songs over and over, so if you like this shtick, Bleed Out will handily scratch that itch.
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