Half the battle

When it comes to indie rock can Modest Mouse truly fool not much. Your guitars were always a little louder, the lyrics always biting and their sound tricky and a track more interesting than the comparable bands, not to mention the adorable titles of her albums once completely. And even if the current plate has got a relatively conventional name 'with the rest of them are still quite far forward on the sympathy scale. It starts with the Cover 'to see is a not-mounted Aerial View of Venture Out Of Mesa, a so-called Active Adult Community in Arizona (hashtag: Nerdwissen)' geometric residential as well only the Americans can. The songs of the disc are again of incredible diversity, which is probably in the honorable list of guests 'James Mercer (The Shins), then Galluci (The Cold War Kids), Jim Fairchild (Grandaddy), Big Boi (Outkast), etc.' is not surprising. Eight years after "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 'present themselves Modest Mouse fresh and full of ideas' electric guitars that really deserve their name, heaps of enchanting melodies, sweeping wind instruments ('Sugar Boat').

And also in terms of sharp-tongued irony was not saving: The very first extraction 'Lampshades On Fire' can be aptly to a humanity of which can not find a way out of their dilemma and therefore simply continue wirtschaftet ('Spend some time floating out in space, place Another Planet Make The Same Mistakes. Our minds all shatter When We climb on board, hoping for the scientist to find another door '). Worn songs about serial killers belong anyway rigueur, here it is the fictional original sound of the man who Gianni Versace shot over the pile ('Pistol'), a little country slapstick at the end: 'God is an Indian and you 're at a *** ole, get on your horse and ride' 'matches. Quiet, shrill, whispering, screaming, campfires, Wrecking Ball, it's all here on this album and everyone would probably understand if Isaac Brock and colleagues would sit back a bit after work. But far from it 'the recordings were so one hears, though very tiring, but probably also quite fertile and so should a second litter of songs come in the not too distant future, in the shops, this time including Krist Novoselic (Nirvana). Good news for people who love 'oh, we better leave it at that. mapambulo: blog