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Lonesome Crowded West (CD)

By: Modest Mouse (Artist)

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Modest Mouse Artist Snapshot:

Combining the influences of new wave, post-punk, and lo-fi, Washington's Modest Mouse spent the second half of the 1990s becoming one of the most renowned indie-rock bands in America. Though often tagged an emo group, Modest Mouse transcends sub-genre categorization. Their moody arrangements, inventive lyrics, and distinctly modern variation on the power-trio format set them apart even as the band's sound proved influential to subsequent hordes of emo bands and indie rockers. They're one of the few indie groups to have successfully weathered the jump to a major label with both their sound and audience intact.

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DISC 1 for Lonesome Crowded West (CD) Album By Modest Mouse (Artist)
1   Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
2   Heart Cooks Brain
3   Convenient Parking
4   Lounge (Closing Time)
5   Jesus Christ Was An Only Child
6   Doin' The Cockroach
7   Cowboy Dan
8   Trailer Trash
9   Out Of Gas
10   Long Distance Drunk
11   Shit Luck
12   Truckers Atlas
13   Polar Opposites
14   Bankrupt On Selling
15   Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/5/98, pp.58-60) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...the trio uses anxious guitars and loping, lazy beats as the launching point for a richly sprawling sound that incorporates everything from aggro-punk to countrified guitar jams to Talking Heads-style art-funk grooves..."
Spin (2/98, p.108) - 8 (out of 10) - "...The music winds around itself--part indie howl, part strummy, stammering pop--creating a fleeting illusion that's almost as good as actually getting someplace..."

Title Note

Modest Mouse: Isaac Brock (guitar, vocals); Eric Judy (bass); Jeremiah Green (drums).

Additional personnel: Nicole Johnson, Chris Setton (vocals); Dann Gallucci, Scott Swayze (guitar); K.O, Brian Weber.

Producers: Calvin Johnson, Isaac Brock, Scott Swayze.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

Though echoes of the Minutemen and Nirvana, along with slightly larger ensembles such as Pavement and Thrush Hermit can be heard, Modest Mouse puts an entirely new twist on the post-punk power trio concept. The band eschews the camouflage of noise, effects and attitude employed by many of their indie rock peers to create ironic distance. Instead, they strictly rely on inventive, surprising songwriting and low-key-but-committed performance to lay their claim as innovators and inheritors of the guitar-bass-drums tradition.

Even though Modest Mouse's stylistic variations (rock-funk, edgy, brittle pop) often reach back to the American underground boom of the early eighties where the band's roots lie, they are never less than forward-looking. THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST reveals Modest Mouse to be extraordinarily focused, as it fully realizes their vision of America as a vehicle for their surreal, sometimes oblique portraits of modern life. Melodic enough to be accessible but raw enough to keep things lively, the band has reached a high point in their career here.

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