"I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit."

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People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

— John Darnielle