Something of a Mountain Goats omnibus, the rarely subdued Heretic Pride ditches the prolific, hyper-literate folk-rock band’s thematic course of late, delivering songs that, while still uniformly downers in that “we’ll get through this together,” John Darnielle way, jump from WWII bombing raids to paranoia to the cold, dead places he mined so heavily on last year’s Get Lonely. “Autoclave” is your worst break-up flashback, with its relentless, hopeless line, “No emotion worth having/Can call my heart my heart its home,” while “How to Embrace a Swamp Creature” is a biting ode to break-up sex. Thankfully, it’s all prefaced with the fantastic “Sax Rohmer #1” and its “I am coming home to you/If it’s the last thing I do” revelation that Darnielle still cares.