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| Released | April 7, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2014 | |||
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| Length | 45:51 | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
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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."[1]
It is the first album to feature multi-instrumentalist and current member Matt Douglas; as well as the first album since Heretic Pride to feature former member Erik Friedlander.
- ^ "THE CREAM OF THE CROP". www.mountain-goats.com. January 20, 2015. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2021.