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The Lonesome Crowded West

Modest Mouse

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Album Review

Talk about original — this band has something for just about everyone. They can do quiet, brooding acoustics like "Bankrupt on Selling," dark and pounding thrashers like "Cowboy Dan," funky jump-around emo like "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" — just about anything. Throughout the whole album is a white-trash feeling and a sort of down-to-earth analysis of the state of the world, without sounding pretentious. Give this album a listen and you can be sure that you will be singing the rambling, catchy, almost whiny vocals in no time. If you dig indie rock at its very best, go pick this album up.

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WARNING

Listening to this album while in isolation may cause deep introspection, profound respect and wonder at the world around you, random poetic thoughts and sporatic boughts of uncontrollable anger, sadness, joy and acceptance of the strange world that surrounds you. Take daily for best results.

Lonesome Crowded West: The Best of the Best

Not over-produced, the music on this album is the absolute purest Modest Mouse music a fan can find. It is the album blissfully sandwiched between the slightly less coherent songs on "This is a long drive..." and the slightly too-dynamic and tweaked sounds of "The Moon and Antarctica" The concept of the album is also fascinating and generally untouched, focusing on the many stages of the constantly developing Midwest. From the open roads described in "Truckers Atlas" to the dying age of cowboys and indians in "Cowboy Dan," to the Christianity of the white trash south in "Teeth like God's Sunshine." The best song on the album is arguably "Cowboy Dan," not only because of its quality, but because of the many Modest Mouse motifs that it contains. The lyrics are Issack's pristine blend of realism, surrealism, and conceptualism. Issacks lyrics are probably the strongest on this song; more so than on any other song. Finally, the music is one part lo-fi, one part harmonics, and one hundred percent whammy bar ready. THIS IS AN AMAZING ALBUM

Modest Mouse at their best.

This is THE BEST Modest Mouse Album.. hands down. Every song is a unique style but theyre all great. Teeth Like God's Shoeshine, Out of Gas, Lounge (closing time), and Styrofoam Boots are my favorite tracks. THIS IS A MUST-HAVE ALBUM

Biography

Formed: 1993 in Issaquah, WA

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green. After honing their muscular sound in "The Shed" — a makeshift practice space built by Brock on the land next to his mother's trailer — Modest Mouse entered Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios to cut their 1994 self-titled debut single, released on Johnson's K Records label. Following a move to the Up label, the trio issued two 1996 LPs, This...
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