For me, The Mountain Goats will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel like the real thing. But then occasionally, they release a song that takes me back to those early recordings where it was just John Darnielle, an acoustic guitar and a boombox recorder. Though properly produced and recorded, Rocks in my Pockets from their latest album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is that kind of song.