![]() It’s been a long time – we just kind of hooked up randomly – things fell into place, then it fell out of place. I’m not really sure, it’s been quite a while, I don’t really remember. You should ask questions, I’m not too good at blathering on offhand. The insight and songwriting talent apparent in Modest Mouse (and Isaac’s other side projects) promise to mature and grow with him I look forward to seeing what the future holds for this band.Ĭan you tell me about the band? I’ve heard a couple of the records and know a bit about your background, but I just want to hear it from you. I half got the feeling he was making up stories as we went along, but the tangents were as interesting as the characters in his songs. ![]() Seemingly a little evasive at first, Isaac gradually warmed to the interview and our conversation flowed and faltered, not unlike a Modest Mouse song. I spoke by telephone with Isaac recently he was waiting for friends to arrive and blissfully unaware it was Labor Day. Cynical observations about life, religion and the world pepper the lyrics, and the story/songs are populated with characters taken from life and Isaac’s imagination.īesides Isaac, the band consists of Eric Judy (bass), Jeremiah Green (drums), and recently-added Chris Majeras on keyboards. The very best songs (like “Convenient Parking”) repeat and loop hypnotically over themselves, both lyrically and musically. Many of their songs are half-sung, half-shouted loose musical collages, built around a single riff until it transforms (or falls apart) into a new groove, slower and sparser, building and collapsing again. ![]() Modest Mouse are introspective, but not too self-important religious-influenced, but certainly not preachy. The prolific writer has worked on a number of side projects, including an upcoming release from Califone (with members of Red Red Meat and Rex), and they also had a recent single released through the newly-revived Sub Pop mail order singles club. Years later, they’re attracting worldwide attention and currently touring behind their latest release on Up Records, The Lonesome Crowded West. Singer/songwriter Isaac Brock began the band as a personal outlet, recording song after song in his bedroom, in low-fi glory. Modest Mouse’s discography reads like a guidebook to Northwest indie cred, with a dozen or so records on labels like Sub Pop, Up, and K. Later that summer, I bought The Moon And Antartica on CD at a record store in my hometown, and, oddly, now that I think about it, it was probably one of the last CDs I ever purchased, so Modest Mouse is weirdly one of the first and one of the last CDs I ever bought.“I don’t know how to explain what I do, I really don’t. This was right around the time when hipsterdom really took off, at least for us in the Midwest, and I started trading in my boot cut jeans for skinny jeans and went hard on flannel shirts and wacky 90s sweaters from Goodwill. ![]() My other Modest Mouse memory comes from around 2010 when I worked at a Christian summer camp and one of the counselors played 3rd Planet in the common room where the counselors would hang out after the kids went to bed and he said he was going to get the lyrics tattooed on his arm. I was 11 or 12 years old, and my best friend at the time Sam brought over his copy to my house and we vibed out to Float On. Good People Who Love Bad News was one of the first albums I discovered and purchased at that special phase of life when you begin to discover music for yourself, as opposed to just listening to the radio or whatever CDs your parents have lying around the house.
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