John Darnielle Shares New Music in Upcoming Novel Trailer: Watch

John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats) has released a teaser trailer for his upcoming novel, Universal Harvester. The trailer features new original music from Darnielle, according to a tweet. Directed by Andrew Bruntel, the trailer depicts a VHS tape that contains a grainy and mysterious film. You can watch that below. Universal Harvester will be released on February 2 via Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 

Darnielle’s debut novel, 2014’s Wolf in White Van, was on the longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Learn more about that novel in “Rise Above Your Station: An Evening With the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle” on the Pitch. 

Revisit our list “The 33 Best 33 1/3 Books,” which includes Darnielle’s book about Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality

my new book is about grief & sadness & Iowa & you can see a teaser-trailer for it with new original music here https://t.co/zgJ8824Uqj

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) December 22, 2016

Watch the Mountain Goats perform “Harlem Roulette” via Pitchfork.tv: 

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