The Life of the World to Come (album)

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Released October 6, 2009 Length 43:08 Release date 6 October 2009		Recorded April–June 2009 Artist The Mountain Goats Label 4AD

The Life of the World to Come(2009) All Eternals Deck(2011) Genres Indie rock, Folk music, Folk rock Producers John Congleton, Scott Solter Similar The Mountain Goats albums, Indie rock albums

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The Life of the World to Come is the twelfth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on October 6, 2009. The third track, "Genesis 3:23", was released as a free download via the band's website on July 28. The album peaked at #110 on the Billboard Top 200 albums on its chart debut.

Continuing in their exploration of religious themes, The Life of the World to Come is composed of twelve tracks, each one inspired by (and titled after) a single verse of the Christian Bible. The album's title comes from a line of the Nicene Creed.

Early copies of the album sold via Rough Trade's physical and online stores featured a bonus CD-R, The Life of the World in Flux. It contains early drafts of most of songs which appears on the main album and some that do not, and stylistically resembles both the band's pre-2002 albums and the 2005 Come, Come to the Sunset Tree LP.

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Reception

The album was positively reviewed by critics, gaining 78/100 points on Metacritic. Pitchfork Media listed it as 45th best of the year, adding that album is "a work of deep, profound empathy-- the kind of thing the Bible is supposed to teach us in the first place".