Modest Mouse
Lonesome Crowded West
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AMG Review of Lonesome Crowded West
Blake Butler
All Music GuideTalk about original -- this band has something for just about everyone. They can do quiet, brooding acoustics like "Bankrupt on Selling," dark and pounding thrashers like "Cowboy Dan," funky jump-around emo like "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" -- just about anything. Throughout the whole album is a white-trash feeling and a sort of down-to-earth analysis of the state of the world, without sounding pretentious. Give this album a listen and you can be sure that you will be singing the rambling, catchy, almost whiny vocals in no time. If you dig indie rock at its very best, go pick this album up.
I heart Modest Mouse
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After uploading a good portion of my old CDs, I realized how long it had been since I’d listened to a lot of these. I am so happy to have my Modest Mouse back!It’s a little bittersweet though. The last time I listened to these guys, my daughter was a brand new little person. In fact I listened to them a lot while I was pregnant. It was a really difficult time. Learning to be a mother, a young
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Modest Mouse On Ice, Alright!
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Going to the Fiber Festival in Benicassim by myself was a bit of a trial. I wouldn't have made it through without Modest Mouse, particularly this song. It lets you muck about romanticizing loneliness and destitution for just long enough, but not too long, before erupting into a brazen raucous of self-aggrandizement at your own absurdity. You simply can't sing along to 'He moved like crisco dis...
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