The Moon & Antarctica

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

The Moon & Antarctica
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Artist: Modest Mouse
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  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
  9. The Stars Are Projectors
  10. Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
  11. Paper Thin Walls
  12. I Came As A Rat
  13. Lives
  14. Life Like Weeds
  15. What People Are Made Of
  16. 3rd Planet - BBC Radio 1 Session
  17. Perfect Disguise - BBC Radio 1 Session
  18. Custom Concern - Instrumental BBC Radio 1 Session
  19. Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes - BBC Radio 1 Session

Free Music Notes for The Moon & Antarctica

Free Music Review: Beautiful Album
Hit: 5 Stars

Perhaps Modest Mouse's magnum opus, this album contains a wide range of emotions and lots of musical variety. For those who think Modest Mouse has become a little watered down recently (which I tend to mostly disagree with), this should be the album of purity. Pure indie rock with a hint of lo-fi. It's what I call music.

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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

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