Well this was unexpected! Six long years after Strangers To Ourselves<\/i>, Modest Mouse have finally returned with a new disc. Lead single \u201cWe Are Between\u201d reminds me of the Modest Mouse that I really liked in the mid 2000s, with great guitar work and a kind of dour vibe that suits it extremely well.<\/p>\n
Opening track \u201cFuck Your Acid Trip\u201d is a more experimental track with a great chorus and sets the pace for the rest of the record. \u201cWooden Soldiers\u201d is one of the slowest and longest tracks here, but it works, very lazy and at ease and it will quickly become a favorite among fans. Departed bassist Eric Judy gets a songwriting credit on \u201cWalking And Running,\u201d marking his first appearance on a Mouse record since 2009, but the song is one of those that doesn\u2019t work and is mostly skippable. <\/p>\n
What makes this record interesting is that it\u2019s not much of a \u2018band\u2019 record but more of a collective of musicians working under the name of Modest Mouse. There\u2019s like six members of the band and they don\u2019t all appear on the same tracks; meanwhile the band publicity photos for this record only feature Isaac Brock and longtime drummer Jeremiah Green.<\/p>\n
The slower vibes continue with \u201cThe Sun Hasn\u2019t Left,\u201d which follows a similarly lazy path, but helps keep things lively. The weirdness reaches its apex on \u201cNever Fuck A Spider On The Fly,\u201d which carries all of the oddities of the title, but works well.<\/p>\n
The album closes with a subtle ballad, \u201cBack To The Middle,\u201d only featuring Green and Brock alongside with occasional member Lisa Molinaro and bassist Russell Higbee, pushing the song\u2019s power right up front. Some have complained about the overabundance of production on the record, but I think it\u2019s a strength because it allows the best songs to really shine all over and the weaker tracks to fall to the back. Hopefully we won\u2019t have to wait as long for the next disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7024],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46185","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-modest-mouse","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46185"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46185"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}