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The Moon & Antarctica (Bonus Tracks)

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PLAY QUEUE 1 3rd Planet		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Gravity Rides Everything		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Dark Center Of The Universe		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Perfect Disguise		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 A Different City		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 The Cold Part		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Alone Down There		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 The Stars Are Projectors		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Wild Packs Of Family Dogs		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Paper Thin Walls		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 I Came As A Rat		save
PLAY QUEUE 13 Lives		save
PLAY QUEUE 14 Life Like Weeds		save
PLAY QUEUE 15 What People Are Made Of		save
PLAY 16 3rd Planet (BBC Radio 1 Session Radio Edit)
PLAY 17 Perfect Disguise (BBC Radio 1 Session Version)
PLAY 18 Custom Concern (Instrumental BBC Radio 1 Session Version)
PLAY 19 Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes (BBC Radio 1 Session Version)

MOG Editorial Review

Making their major label debut, Modest Mouse came out of the gates with a collection of songs that refreshingly softened their edges. There’s nothing that thrashes quite as angrily as “Cowboy Dan” (The Lonesome Crowded West), but the focused emphasis on brooding reflections and death helped Modest Mouse write some of their best songs. “3rd Planet” introduces the album hesitantly with its jangly strings, only to surge forth with Isaac Brock’s nonsensical lyrics, gorgeously segueing into the airy “Gravity Rides Everything.” Elsewhere, the bouncy “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes,” “Wild Packs of Family Dogs,” and “Paper Thin Walls” serve as necessary breaks between bleaker tracks like “The Cold Part,” or “The Stars Are Projectors.” Modest Mouse tightened their reigns, proved their musicianship, and executed a well thought out album of sometimes brash, always moody introspection.
AMG Review of Moon & Antarctica [Bonus Tracks]

Heather Phares
All Music Guide

Modest Mouse's Epic debut, The Moon & Antarctica, finds them strangely subdued, focusing on mortality as well as the moody, acoustic side of their music and downplaying the edgy, spastic rock that helped make them indie stars. Not that their first major-label release sounds like a sellout -- actually, the slight sheen of Brian Deck's production enhances the album's introspective tone -- but occasionally The Moon & Antarctica's melancholy becomes ponderous. Unfortunately, the album's middle stretch contains three such songs, "The Cold Part," "Alone Down There," and "The Stars Are Projectors," which tend to blur together into one 17-minute-long piece that bogs down the album's momentum. Individually, each of these songs is sweeping and haunting in its own right, but grouping them together blunts their impact. However, this trilogy does provide a sharp contrast to, as well as a bridge across, The Moon & Antarctica's more vibrant beginning and end. Though it explores death and the afterlife, The Moon & Antarctica's liveliest moments are its most effective. "3rd Planet"'s simple, ramshackle melody and strange, moving lyrics ("Your heart felt good"), the elastic guitars on "Gravity Rides Everything," and the angular, jumpy "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" and "A Different City" get the album off to a strong start, while the fresh, unaffected "Wild Packs of Family Dogs," "Paper Thin Walls," and "Lives" bring it to an atmospheric, affecting peak before "What People Are Made Of" closes the album with a climactic burst of noise. Their most cohesive collection of songs to date, The Moon & Antarctica is an impressive, if flawed, map of Modest Mouse's ambitions and fears. [The 2004 reissue has been remastered and features BBC performances of "3rd Planet," "Perfect Disguise," and "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes," as well as an instrumental version of "Custom Concern" from This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About.]