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It's to bad that the two most recent Modest Mouse (Good News and Dead Before) albums suck as much as they do, because Modest Mouse war the last great rock band. It's because they're rootsy as hell and use minimum production that makes them so good. I'm not saying that their new stuff is anything special, but everything they created up until Lonesome Crowded West is absolutely amazing.
This album is all over the place, in a good way. There's the soft acoustic tracks (Out of Gas, Polar Opposites), the screaming punk tracks (Shit Luck), the country infused working class songs (Cowboy Dan) and even a jumper (Lounge (Closing Time)) reminiscent of their earlier track Summer from The Fruit That Ate Itself EP. Mean while,they manage to keep each track emotional as hell. It still has that proto emo sound.
My favorite track on the album is the 11 minute cocaine powered epic Truckers Atlas, probably my favorite Modest Mouse song in general. The drums on it are some of the best ever. Every time i play the track, I listen to the entire 11 minutes of it and never look at the clock. It's that good. Another classic is Doin' The Cockroach. Starts of slow and angry and gets faster and angrier until it ends with Isaac Brock doing what he does best, screaming with emotion with that lisp of his.
Easily the best album of 1997, top five of the 90's and my favorite Modest Mouse album.
Sounds Like
Working class early emo
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