FLIGHT

Continuing my ongoing documentation of the Modest Mouse phenomena, and my attempts to like them as a band: I have finally listened to the entirety of The Moon & Antartica, and I really like it. I think my problem before was that I was listening to a jumble of MP3s, but listening to the album as a whole is a completely different experience (that's what I get for downloading music as opposed to buying albums, I suppose). Much like Radiohead's OK Computer, some of the songs in TM&A individually aren't as strong taken out of context of the album, which brings up that whole "the sum is greater than its parts" thing, and all that.

So, yeah. I think I like 'em.

Good News For People Who Love Bad News is slowly growing on me, but certainly not the eye-opener that TM&A was. And I still think "Float On" is one of the best singles this year so far.

Also: this is the awesomest comic about Modest Mouse ever. And so true, too.

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keaner.net
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hooray for kean!!!

yea, the moon and antarctica is a great album. i might be biased though. i really am a huge fan of pretty much all the albums. some more then others, but i do like them all.

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Phil in the Blanks

I actually just bought the latest Modest Mouse album earlier this week... but since it hasn't really taken a shine to me, I didn't post about it. I bought it on a whim from just liking the "float on" single hoping the rest of the album would be similar. But it's not... so I'm still gonna give it a few listens but there are some tracks that are just not my thing.

I've been listening to Modest Mouse off and on for a long while now. Never really got into them all that much, but I had to buy the new album because the cover art and CD just looked too damn cool.

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