8.4
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#983
All Time
16
Tracks
“Modest Mouse could easily be mistaken for indie-rock also-rans — they look like small-town misfits and usually sound like that, too, between their detuned guitars and unpretentious Pavement affect. But there’s some mystery in their equation that sets this Issaquah, Washington, band apart: They make a peculiar brand of existential folk poetry, one that combines […]”
“Early in their career, Modest Mouse accomplished what may be the ultimate goal of any band: to forge a unique and recognizable sound from the most basic elements of rock music. By the time they'd released their second album, *The Lonesome Crowded West*, the band was working with a distinct but manipulable set of characteristic traits-- Isaac Brock's throaty, lisping vocals, Eric Judy's rolling, fl”
