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MODEST MOUSE - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
| AbsolutePunk |
| When Tom DeLonge said in an interview regarding his newly formed band Angels and Airwaves, he said that their debut, We Don't Need to Whisper was gong to be "the best f--king album anybody has heard in 20 years." Naturally this was met with skepticism, and as it turns out AVA did not deliver as DeLonge had promised. His artistic vision of WDNTW was skewed, which brings me to Isaac Brock and Modest Mouse's new album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank....full text |
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| Entertainment Weekly |
| When Modest Mouse first emerged in the mid-'90s, it would have been a brave man who bet the farm — or even a chicken — on the Issaquah, Wash., outfit ever becoming platinum artists. It was clear that singer Isaac Brock and his band could write a tune. That was amply demonstrated by their second collection, 1997's The Lonesome Crowded West, and, in particular, ''Polar Opposites,'' a remarkably beautiful lament about drinking by someone who, by all accounts, knows of what he speaks....full text |
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| TinyMixTapes |
| “Traveling, swallowing Dramamine.” Modest Mouse have always been about movement. They travel. They are a traveling circus. Their early albums were long drives exploring interstates (an old photo of a young Isaac, with mutton chops and razor pimples, shows him steering a truck with one hand, the American expanse behind his profile). Then they embarked on a celestial journey, accelerating through dark matter and ash....full text |
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