|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
|---|
| 1. 3rd Planet |
| 2. Gravity Rides Everything |
| 3. Dark Center Of The Universe |
| 4. Perfect Disguise |
| 5. Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes |
| 6. A Different City |
| 7. The Cold Part |
| 8. Alone Down There |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. The Stars Are Projectors |
| 2. Wild Packs Of Family Dogs |
| 3. Paper Thin Walls |
| 4. I Came As A Rat |
| 5. Lives |
| 6. Life Like Weeds |
| 7. What People Are Made Of |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
With their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world. Rarely giving off the cage-jarring thickness of guitar rock, Moon's 15 tunes are shaped around vignettes of a disheveled head figuring out the rambling disconnections of postmodern society. Guitars wobble, Brock wails on vocals, and his band mates--Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green--help take each song away from any predictable formula and toward wherever they seem to want to go. This is a band as profoundly touched by suburbia as was writer Harold Brodkey. You can imagine Brock, Green, and Judy lying on wide-open lawns, philosophizing about the shape of the universe and coming up with lyric moments like this (sung to folky, spare acoustic guitar): "A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard and as my own dog ran away I didn't say much of anything at all / A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard as my little sister played; the dogs took her away, and I guess she was eaten up, okay." Replays of American Beauty, anyone? --Andrew Bartlett
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
brag all you want, MM,
By
This review is from: Moon And Antarctica (Audio CD)
On their major-label debut, longtime indie darlings Modest Mouse deliver an impressive effort that melds the best aspects of their previous albums into a logical extension of their offbeat sound. Fans of the Mouse will have trouble decrying their move to a major label, since they have certainly not "sold-out." Rather, this is easily their best and most cohesive album to date. Exploring themes of loneliness, desolation, and seclusion in modern life, The Moon & Antarctica weaves a dense, layered atmosphere that reflects these heady topics. Each track is quirky and completely unique, and when taken as a whole this can be considered the best "artsy" album to come out since Radiohead's OK Computer.The album flows easily from the lovely "Gravity Rides Everything," which is propelled along by backwards drums, through the spooky epic "The Stars Are Projectors," before ending with the Fugazi-inspired heaviness of "What People Are Made Of." The lyrics, courtesy of frontman Isaac Brock, are just as impressive as the music. On "A Different City," Brock eloquently sums up television by growling, "They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing." Every subsequent listen is guaranteed to reveal some hidden aspect of the music-like the sweeping cello and whispered vocals that create an arctic wind on "The Cold Part," or the delicate banjo plucking that accentuates the ballad "Perfect Disguise," or the frantic percussion that lends a jumpy, rush-hour feel to "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes." If all this doesn't sound the least bit modest, well you're right. But this Mouse should be bragging a little after an album this good.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album!,
By
This review is from: Moon And Antarctica (10th Ann.) (Audio CD)
I've just started listening to Modest Mouse and I just love them. So excited that I found another band with such great talent - every song is mesmerizing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect pop creation,
By "jamescaulfield" (Hochunk,WI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moon And Antarctica (Audio CD)
A lot of good music is about the balance between pop and experimental sounds that are not immediatly appealing. Sonic Youth continually wrestles with this, as the best example. Modest Mouse, and more specifically Issac Brock, the genius of the band, has managed an almost perfect major label debut. The songs all center around tight poppy hooks but then go off onto weird explorations. Brock's voice keeps its weird lisping quality but changes with each song, sounding psychotic in Tiny Cities but then gentle in Perfect Disguise. His lyrics, which alternate between "It was alright,yeah,ok" and grand philisophical explorations about time and space and God manage perfectly the tricky feat of being both laid back and intensely intrested. This album is essential for any one who likes indie pop/rock. Also,the extended version is worth its price if its about a dollar mre than the regualr, which is what I bought it at. The three extra tracks are cool at least, especially a craxy echocing Tiny Cities which is even weirder than the first.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Emo
- Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Indie Rock
- Music > Pop
- Music > Rock
- Music > Vinyl
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
