The music Modest Mouse makes has always been informed by the climate and geography that make the Northwest an eerie, lovely place. Oceans, mountains, and mercilessly unbroken periods of rain manifest in music, at times heartbreaking ("Edit the Sad Parts"), at others, the musical equivalent of a post office shooting spree ("Tundra/Desert"). With only a year of state-approved drinking under his belt at the time of Interstate 8's release, singer/songwriter Isaac Brock evidently has seen a thing or two. Lyrics like "Every planned occupation/sure-fire disappointment up ahead/till they treat you like desert/see mirages of friendship/face turns red" from "Tundra/Desert" is a worldview that doesn't typically sink in till the late twenties/early thirties. Brock's signature guitar style is matched by Jeremiah Green's distinctive drumming which occasionally reaches the bpm ratio of a drum'n'bass track. Bassist Eric Judy locks into bassline equivalents of how you might feel as you stood on your porch smoking a cigarette during that 35th consecutive day of rain. With over 70 minutes of music to delve into, this "EP" proves that Modest Mouse's musical cup truly runneth over.
I once knew an aquaintance of a friend who was quite the outdoor daredevil. He got our close-knit group of stoners involved in rappelling. For those going "??" rappelling is the sport of climbing down mountains with ropes. You use a series of special chain links like pullys to slowly descend. We would travel a couple hours away to Daniel Boone National forest in Kentucky and spend the weekend d...
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I've had the Modest Mouse album "Interstate 8" for a long long time now, but I never really gave it much attention because it just sounded like rough versions of songs on other albums, mostly 'Building Nothing Out of Something'. I separated all of my modest mouse on itunes the other day and just let them randomly play. This song popped on and I thought to myself "I have never heard this song....
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This post isnt for you. Cuase its a modest mouse song a B-side track. Called edit the sad parts.Truely amazing. Modest mouse is god.
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Recently I moved from Las Vegas, Nevada to Bakersfield, California (a small city in southern California). I played as DJ for at least half of the trip and my frieind drove the 4 hour drive. I brought along some Modest Mouse albums and he brought some emo/pop-punk stuff that really didn't do justice to the trip haha. Anyways, I popped in Interstate 8 by Modest Mouse and we listened to the whole ...
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