'Transcendental Youth' is the fourteenth studio album from Mountain Goats, Many of the songs on the record were previewed to sellout crowds on the band's Australian tour earlier this year, The album was recorded at Overdub Lane in Durham with Brandon Eggleston (LES SAVY FAV, MODEST MOUSE, THE MORNING BENDERS) and later mixed by Scott Solter (ST VINCENT, SPOON, OKKERVIL RIVER) at Baucom Road - and for the first time, a Mountain Goats record features horns arrangements by Matthew E, White.