This is a great CD...I bought it for the song "Dashboard"- the song is awesome...Fire it up is also a pretty good song. I would say that it is worth getting this CD, especially since the songs really aren't played on the radio. I have heard "Dashboard" a few times on the radio, which is what peeked my interest in this CD. I have Modest Mouse's other CD (Good News for people who love bad news), so when I heard the song on the radio, I immediately recognized it as Modest Mouse. If you are a Modest Mouse fan, you should certainly buy this CD!
September 5, 2008 |  | not like old modest mouse |  |
I was not a big fan of good news for people who love bad news but this is not any better there are a couple of good songs if you want good modest mouse get the lonesome crowded west or the moon and antarctica dont bother with this or good news for people who love bad news.
August 19, 2008It's one great song after another. If you don't feel like dancing to Fly Trapped in a Jar, Education and Steam Engenius check your pulse. Little Motel and Parting of the Sensory display Brock's quieter singing abilities and he does have them. The louder harder songs are more demanding of those abilities and you gotta have it to do it. I think they managed to equal and surpass the previous issue Good News for People Who Love Bad News and this is a band that is peaking. I just hope the peak last at least 20 years as I rarely find music that satisfies me like this does. Another masterwork some have called a magnificent mess. Well, it is magnificent.
July 2, 2008 | | Modest Mouse makes an album with an anchored parachute on its cover | |
It's actually more like a 4.5, but it pains me to see only 4 stars on this album's 'average rating'. It ought to to be about 4.5 stars. I find it hard to compare Modest Mouse albums with each other when it comes to quality, so i will only tentativly say that this is probably their best Epic release(my favorite is actually the odds and ends compilation Buliding Nothing Out of Something). So the other reviewers have pretty much hit on everything I was planning on. Yes, this is anything but the sound of Modest Mouse 'selling out'. Yes it's dense, yes that guy from the Shins sings on a few tracks (best result is "We've Got Everything"). Yes, one of the highlights is the towering epic "Spitting Venom". Most of the songs are high-energy, fast and disoreintating, with incredible musicianship (Dig Johnny Marr's excellent guitarism throughout). The slower songs are welcome breaks, however. This is Modest Mouse's most 'over the top' album I think. Like I said, the band is a relentless force, playing fast and at odd time signatures for most of the songs. Isaac Brock's vocals are also at their most frantic, loud, and ridiculous-pummeling-torrent-of-words-esque. Throughout the album, he barely takes a break. I think that's due in part to the way it was mixeed. The end result is very in-you-face(there's a more conventional hyphenated phrase for ya). See before(on the earlier albums from the 90s) you had this madman of sorts yelling over all this guitar he was kinda buried under (along with his own double-tracked vocals). Well, now he's right in your ear. That's a recomendation, not a warning.
July 1, 2008Making clanky dance pop seems to be a major fetish these days. With Franz Ferdinand and Panic at The Disco revisiting this new wave station, Modest Mouse up the ante on "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank." There's plenty of choppy pop to go around for those that love it.
Kind of like Canadians Hot Hot Heat, MM also has an affinity for The Cure's Robert Smith-style vocal yelps. Both "March Into The Sea" and initial single "Dashboard" whoop it up in grand style. Better still is "Missed The Boat," which is my favorite track here.
Isaac Brock also has a way with the chopped up lyric. "We've Got Everything" is a sad tale of details of folks who have done everything, "tried everything as half-a--ed and liars." All through "We Were Dead..." words bounce off each other and ricochet in imagistic fashion and nonsense. It makes a lot of the listening to this CD as much fun as a word puzzle (which probably says more about me than MM). If that sounds like your kind of pop band, than by all means, grab a life vest and get aboard.
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