The Mountain Goats have announced Days , a swift follow-up to the album they released last November, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan . Leading the record—and a tracklist of typically colorful song names—is “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” (Delve in further for such titles as “Best Hard Rock Albums 2013” and “Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums.”) Check that out below, along with their previously announced tour dates. John Darnielle said in a press release that the album started life as Grunges , a sequel to their 2017 LP Goths , after he made “a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’” He went on, “A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how All Hail West Texas happened.…