New Modest Mouse continues to confuse previous Modest Mouse

   So evidently Modest Mouse are gearing up for a new EP or something, but fragments are appearing every once and a while….and I love it.  No One’s First and You’re Next contains the country freak single Satellite Skin, as well as 4 other interesting tunes that have all but 1 surfaced online over the last couple weeks.  One thing I’ll always love about MM is no matter what people are gonna think of their next move, it’s always fresh and untraveled.  Issac Brock is not a songwriter known for repeating his last move.  He will never make another song that sounds anything like Jesus Christ Was An Only Child or Birds vs. Worms or Interstate 8 because he already did.  And although Satellite Skin does a great job at sounding like a whiskey drunk country poem, the real winner is 6+ minute slicer The Whale Song.  Resting somewhere between A Different City’s jagged high end jolting guitar and the lost, panicky frustrations of March Into the Sea (but all the while never sounding like either,) The Whale Song continues to highlight Modest Mouse as pioneers of a genre no one else could quite identify or mimic, eventually leading to the dumbed down tag now simply known as indie rock.

Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin

Modest Mouse – Whale Song

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