The Lonesome Crowded WestModest Mouse · 1997

pastemagazine

10

“The PNW band’s second album is a masterpiece of intentional instability. Songs don’t just build, they unravel; hooks emerge only after being dragged through miles of broken asphalt and Isaac Brock’s throat-shredding howls.”

rollingstone

7.0

“Issaquah, Wash’s Modest Mouse work a fractured, noisy terrain that borrows heavily from the Pixies and Pavement — but don’t mistake them for just another small-town band jumping on the indie-rock train too late. On its second full-length, the trio uses anxious guitars and loping, lazy beats as the launching point for a richly sprawling […]”