The Mountain Goats Announce New Album Days, Releases “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Feds”: Stream

The Mountain Goats continue their ever prolific ways with the announcement of their 24th studio album, Days . Due out August 7th via Cadmean Dawn Records, the 12-track LP comes just nine months after 2025’s (slightly wordier) Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan .

If Days ’ shorter album title seems a wee bit familiar, that’s likely on purpose. In a press release, frontman John Darnielle says the record “began life as Grunges , a sequel to [2017’s] Goths , after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’” Similarly, Darnielle said that the LP’s recording also took place when “my wife left town for a two-week residency in Virginia,” adding that just such a spousal excursion (“[playing] hockey in Banff”) is “how All Hail West Texas happened.”

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The aforementioned two-week recording session was led up by producer John Congleton, with the band gathering at Sear Sound in Manhattan. Along the way, The Mountain Goats recruited a few friends: Rob Jost (bass and French horn); group backing vocals from Manhattan Transfer’s Janis Siegal; melodies/vocals from long-time band compatriot Matt Nathanson; and harpist Mikaela Davis.

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As to what the album’s actually about, Darnielle explained that it’s mainly nostalgia, but not necessarily in that rather warm and fuzzy sense.

“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,” Darnielle said. “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.”

And speaking of generating the warm and fuzzies, our first taste of Days comes with the album’s lead single, “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” Not only does it have perhaps the best title of 2026, but the song is a slightly funky, oddly anthemic odd to never giving up and “rising to the occasion.” (Or maybe it’s about bridges?) Check out the official visualizer below.

Pre-orders for Days are available right now .

And what would a new The Mountain Goats album be without a corresponding tour? The band will be on the road for the rest of the year, with US shows slated for the rest of May alongside a smattering in June, July, and August. Check out the full schedule below; grab your tickets here .

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Days Artwork:

Days Tracklist:

01. Song for Layne Staley

02. Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds

03. Shallow Grave

04. Candlebox

05. Annie Haslam Imperial Phase

06. Crying on Eddie Nash’s Grave

07. Days

08. Best Hard Rock Albums 2013

09. Going to Fennario

10. Woodstock

11. Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums

12. Last Day

The Mountain Goats 2026 Tour Dates:

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

05/16 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater

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

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 *

08/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre

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

08/16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre

08/17 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom

08/19 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom

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

08/21 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa

08/22 – Durham, NC @ DPAC

10/05 – Helsinki, FI @ Kuudes Linja #

10/07 – Stockholm, SE @ Nalen #

10/08 – Oslo, NO @ Vulkan Arena #

10/10 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset #

10/11 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol #

10/12 – Hamburg, DE @ 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 #

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

^ = w/ The Avett Brothers

* = w/ The Hold Steady

# = w/ Craig Finn

@ = Expanded Line-Up

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_Originally reported by [Consequence](https://consequence.net/2026/05/the-mountain-goats-days-charlie-sheen/)._