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the new modest mouse album is going to sound like their last two. it's going to make loads of money and have some real popular singles. i do not think it will resonate with me on any level close to their 2000 and earlier stuff. i'm not going to call them out for being sellouts or anything, because even though they transitioned from "raw" music to a much more pop sound, i can't blame them. you can't take the role of frustrated, disillusioned 20-something forever. look at guys like weezer, who have been making the same kind of power pop for 20 years. now they're like 40 and making music for the same demographic as when they were 20 and it feels weird. definitely puts bands in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of deal, so i try to cut some slack. i'll not chastise them for it, but in all likelihood if it sounds anything like we were dead then i'm not going to like it.
in any case they were pretty prolific back in the day so there's plenty of nostalgia about times i wasn't sentient to be had. i counted 68 individual tracks from moon & antarctica and before, and there's a ton of live shit to dig through as well. any MM fans hit me up.
in any case they were pretty prolific back in the day so there's plenty of nostalgia about times i wasn't sentient to be had. i counted 68 individual tracks from moon & antarctica and before, and there's a ton of live shit to dig through as well. any MM fans hit me up.