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Beat the Champ will be The Mountain Goats’s first studio album since 2012’s Transcendental Youth. According to frontman John Darnielle, Beat the Champ is a concept album about pro wrestling, a passion of his as a child.
“I wrote these songs to re-immerse myself in the blood and fire of the visions that spoke to me as a child,” Darnielle wrote on Merge’s website, “and to see what more there might be in them now that I’m grown.”