Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves (March 3, 2015)

their first LP in 8 years (!). first single "Lampshades on Fire" is pretty alright: http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2014/12/14/modest-mouse-lampshades-on-fire-song-premiere

does ilm still hate modest mouse?

http://roxannesilverwood.com/images/2_MOTION/2013/RS-THATS-SO-90S-logo.jpg

Album title makes you think, you know?

Woah. I think I might be the other ILXor that digs the Mouse. I actually sold off We Were Dead before a big move a couple years back, the double vinyl was kind of bulky for something I hadn't really pulled out in a few years. Such a move would have been unthinkable to me a decade ago.

New song seems OK, very much like a Good News album track, down to the ba-ba-ba stuff. Not blown away, but reserving judgement.

it has been eight years, wow. looking forward to hearing this.

ugh, awful interviewer with a poor connection but

http://pitchfork.com/news/58281-modest-mouses-jeremiah-green-explains-album-delay-says-big-boi-and-krist-novoselic-arent-on-it/

Bookmarking this thread for when the album is released. Huge fan! I actually think their 2007 album was one of their best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW5Or7bIVJk

oh sorry, didn't know that Pitchfork also had the video link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmw8lVXHIms#t=55

hate this lampshade song so much.

it's unlistenable

Yeah, er. I can't tell if my tastes have just shifted a lot, or if this was a band that made sense to me at a certain moment and not anymore or what. It's a weird feeling. I totally got into Good News and into large chunks of We Were Dead, and this basically sounds like those records but it's not interesting or compelling to me. Weird that that would be the sound they would settle into, really. I'm not gonna write it off just yet but I would like to like this more than I do.

I do like "Coyotes" but the video might be doing the heavy lifting on that one

i saw these guys at atp circa 'good news for people who love bad' i think, when they'd really taken off as a pitchfork favourite in the US, i think, but at the time that demographic didn't automatically port over to british indie kids, and so they were high on the bill and no one really gave a shit, and the frontman was complaining and threatening to stop playing, and someone at the back heckled with

RUBBISH!

RUBBISH!

RUBBISH MOUSE!

good news was their crossover, "float on" was a huge hit on radio & MTV

Peak Pitchfork Mouse was Moon & Antarctica. I think they did a lot for that record - or maybe it was right at that moment (alongside Kid A, Sophtware Slump, some other big indie things of '00) where Pitchfork was just getting big enough to be able to make even a small difference for a record, and have that in turn enhance the mag's own perceived relevance.

"Lampshades" reminds me a lot of the last Cake single "Sick of You" which was essentially just an amalgam of previous Cake singles. Everything in this song seems directly lifted off one of their past songs, particularly the stuff on Good News. Not just getting down on new Mouse singles - I liked "Dashboard" and "Satellite Skin" quite a bit

someone at the back heckled with

RUBBISH!

RUBBISH!

RUBBISH MOUSE!

the greatest thing I have ever heard

i was there too and some of the ~bad vibes~ were def down to people who thought that good news... was a sellout move.

which is not to detract from the noble sentiment of 'rubbish mouse'

I'm not understanding the brilliance of 'rubbish mouse'

lmao it's pretty good, rubbish mouse, all that

xp - maybe something is lost in translation because i also don't really see what makes it such a sick burn though perhaps burn standards require some kind of metric conversion of which i am unaware

I think the key to understanding how funny it is is to realize that the guy shouting it thinks it's really funny.

tracklist is promising

01 Strangers to Ourselves
02 Lampshades on Fire
03 Shit in Your Cut
04 Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)
05 Ansel
06 The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
07 Coyotes
08 Pups to Dust
09 Sugar Boats
10 Wicked Campaign
11 Be Brave
12 God is an Indian and You're an Asshole
13 The Tortoise and the Tourist
14 The Best Room
15 Of Course We Know

also it comes out on March 17th now

#12 sounds like its from a fake MM tracklisting. Kind of the penultimate Mouse songtitle.

"God is a woman and the woman is an animal, that animal's man and that's you."

04 Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)

just googled this name cuz it sounded familiar and UGH

held out hopes the single was chosen by the label for being the most generically modest mouse track but coyotes a snore and now we've got some "hey man nice shot" shit to look forward to

I'd say 'The Best Room' is the penultimate Mouse songtitle

then what's the last one called?

woops should be xpd but got scooped on the joke, hanging my head in shame rn

rubbish!
rubbish!
rubbish art!

(not really)

this is sounding pretty good so far - probably won't satisfy the LCW-or-bust crowd but I'm glad the songs are mostly short and focused. I'm not sure how much the off-balance guitar lines or noisey bits fit the band anymore but I do enjoy the callbacks to the MM of the past, can't believe I've been listening to this band for 15 years now

this is such a strange album. the title track is beautiful and sad. lampshades and shit in yr cut bore me. pistol is weird and cool, god is an indian and you're an asshole is a sweet callback/sequel to wild pack of family dogs. i think the biggest thing holding MM back these days is that Isaac Brock has nothing left to say.

i've turned around on "lampshades on fire" - or maybe the other tracks i've heard bored me enough that it's now a welcome imitation of themselves in pop mode

Haha I caught "Lampshades on Fire" on the radio last night and I spent about 30 seconds thinking, "why are they playing an old single when they have a new one out?". Took me that long to realize it WAS the new single.

man the first song is one of the best things they've ever done. dunno about the rest except for a couple songs...

you're always busy
busy busy
busy clippers eh uh
lampshades on fire

really excited for 13 The Tortoise and the Tourist

Shit in your cunt o_O

Of Course We Know is really good imo, perfect high school weltschmerz vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGsf8IYP5WI

wiki lists it as "Shit in Your Cut", fwiw

I really like "The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box", I'm cautiously optimistic about the whole record.