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American band

Small Mouse
Modest Mouse performing in August 2021

Modest Mouse performing in Baronial 2021
Background information
Origin Issaquah, Washington, U.S.
Genres
  • Indie rock
Years active 1992–present
Labels
  • Epic
  • Up
  • K
  • Matador
  • Glacial
Associated acts
  • Ugly Casanova
  • Seasick Steve
  • The Shins
  • Grandaddy
  • Cold State of war Kids
Website www.modestmouse.com
Members Isaac Brock
Jeremiah Green
Tom Peloso
Russell Higbee
Ben Massarella
Simon O'Connor
Past members Eric Judy
Joe Plummer
Dann Gallucci
Benjamin Weikel
Jim Fairchild
Lisa Molinaro
Davey Brozowski
John Wickhart
Johnny Marr

Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The founding members are lead singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Strongly influenced by Pavement, Pixies, XTC, and Talking Heads, they rehearsed, rearranged, and recorded demos for almost two years earlier finally signing with minor-town indie label Thousand Records and releasing numerous singles.[ane]

Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Recollect About, the band's lineup has mostly centered on Brock and Green, undergoing multiple changes. The band accomplished mainstream success with their fourth album, Good News for People Who Dearest Bad News (2004), and its singles "Bladder On" and "Bounding main Breathes Salty". Judy performed on every Minor Mouse album until his departure in 2012. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of the Smiths) joined the band in 2006, shortly following percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to piece of work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007). Guitarist Jim Fairchild joined the band in 2009. The band's sixth album, Strangers to Ourselves, was released on March 17, 2015. Their seventh anthology, The Golden Casket, released on June 25, 2021.

History [edit]

Germination and early years: 1992–1999 [edit]

When Isaac Brock was a teenager, he was employed at a local family video shop merely outside Seattle, where he met bassist Eric Judy. Brock and Judy subsequently discovered drummer Jeremiah Green,[2] who besides resided near Seattle, at a heavy metal bear witness, at which point they decided to brand music together. Brock says he fabricated a point of the ring existence from Issaquah to avert association with the music scenes of Seattle or Olympia and to proceed with the band'south suburban lyrical themes. In 1994, at Calvin Johnson'due south Dub Narcotic Studios, Pocket-sized Mouse recorded its first EP, Blueish Cadet-3, Exercise You Connect?, which was released by K Records. This was followed by a single, "Broke", recorded past Steve Wold (a.k.a. bluesman Seasick Steve) nether Sub Pop records at Moon Studios in Olympia, Washington. During this time, Modest Mouse too recorded what would have been its kickoff album, Sorry Sappy Sucker, but constant delays caused the album to be shelved and forgotten. Information technology was not until 2001 that it was officially released. Earlier the band fabricated its manner into the pop music world in 2004, many of Modest Mouse'due south tours included stops at DIY/punk venues.

Subsequently moving to Upwardly Records,[3] Modest Mouse released two full-length albums and other recordings including the 1996 LP This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Zilch to Think About. Steve Wold also recorded and produced this album (and at the time was assisting in the recordings as well, only was not officially part of the ring) along with the next offering, Interstate viii. The 1997 album, The Lonesome Crowded Westward (also recorded at Moon Studios, past Scott Swayze) served as the ring'southward quantum. The Lonesome Crowded West gained the band a cult following, and is now popularly considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-1990s indie stone.[4] During this time, Nick Kraft became involved with the chore of refining the band's sound. Prior to its release, the ring had recorded the EP The Fruit That Ate Itself. In 2000, Up Records released a singles and rarities drove entitled Building Nada Out of Something that included the entirety of Interstate 8 except for the songs "Edit the Deplorable Parts" and "Buttons to Push the Buttons".

Critical success: 2000–2002 [edit]

In 2000, Modest Mouse released The Moon & Antarctica, its starting time album on Epic Records. The album, produced by Califone'due south Brian Deck during v months of sessions in Chicago,[5] was met with disquisitional acclamation,[6] including a 9.8/10 score from online music magazine Pitchfork Media, despite concerns about releasing fabric on a major label.[7] The album would later receive farther acclaim.[8]

The band licensed "Gravity Rides Everything" for a Nissan Quest minivan ad, a movement that Brock has publicly acknowledged as blatantly commercial but necessary to achieve financial stability. Regarding the commercial, Brock stated, "People who don't have to make their living playing music tin can bitch about my principles while they spend their parents' coin or launder dishes for some asshole."[9]

In 2001, Pocket-size Mouse released the EP Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, a collection of unused songs from the recording sessions of The Moon & Antarctica. In 2002, the band joined Block, De La Soul, The Flaming Lips, The Hackensaw Boys and Kinky on the Unlimited Sunshine Tour.[10]

Mainstream success, Johnny Marr joins the ring: 2003–2009 [edit]

Shows members of Modest Mouse performing in concert

Small-scale Mouse performing alive in 2007

In March 2003, Dark-green left the band after suffering a nervous breakdown;[11] official reports stated he was leaving to work with his side projection, Vells. The same yr, he and Judy appeared on Adam Forkner's get-go solo anthology, VVRSSNN. Drummer Benjamin Weikel joined the band, replacing Green, forth with Murder Urban center Devils guitarist Dann Gallucci, who had previously played with Small Mouse. Prior to starting the band'south writing and recording process, Brock was devastated by the loss of "a couple of the most of import people in my life," he said.[12] Post-obit these events, the band released their 4th album, Good News for People Who Dear Bad News, on April 6, 2004. The following August, the album was certified Platinum,[2] having ii hits with "Float On" and "Body of water Breathes Salty" (both of which they performed on Saturday Night Live on November 13, 2004).[13] The album was nominated for a Grammy Honour for Best Alternative Music Album that year, and "Float On" was nominated for Best Rock Vocal. Later that year, Green returned to the band and Weikel returned to drumming exclusively for the Helio Sequence.

The public radio program Marketplace used "Float On" as bumper music, which helped propel the group to a broader audition.

In 2006, Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) joined the band afterward Gallucci quit amicably. Small-scale Mouse released their side by side album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, on March 20, 2007[xiv] subsequently its original release appointment of December 19, 2006 was delayed. The album too included bonus track and single "King Rat", which actor Heath Ledger had known about before the track was released; the band was formally introduced to the player while on their 2007 tour in Australia. Ledger proposed an outline for a music video to the grouping, and with his film collective, The Masses, immediately began working on it once he had the band'south approval.[15] Upon Ledger'south decease in January 2008, the video remained unfinished.[16] We Were Dead Earlier the Ship Even Sank was the commencement Modest Mouse album to reach No. ane on the Usa Billboard 200 charts and had the hit unmarried "Dashboard", as well as "Missed the Boat" and "We've Got Everything". Minor Mouse released singles for the songs "Satellite Skin", "Autumn Beds" and "Perpetual Motion Car" in limited edition—a total of 4,000 copies each—vinyl 7 inches, featuring artwork by fine art managing director and illustrator Joshua Marc Levy, J. Alex Stamos, and Natasha Wheat.

The band began a North American tour in June 2008. They returned to Florida, with 3 shows in Miami, Orlando and St. Augustine, for the commencement time since they were cut off stage early on during the November 2006 Bang Music Festival show.[17] Modest Mouse finished its tour supporting Nosotros Were Dead Earlier the Ship Even Sank after two years of promoting the record.

Jim Fairchild replaced Marr as official guitarist after the latter left the band and joined The Cribs, beginning with the bout of No One'southward Beginning and You lot're Side by side, which was released on August 4, 2009,[xviii] equanimous of unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Earlier the Transport Even Sank.[19]

Touring, lineup changes, and re-releases: 2010–2014 [edit]

In 2010, The Moon & Antarctica was re-released on vinyl as part of Tape Store Day.[20]

On July 4, 2010 the band headlined the second day of the 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa,[21] and the first day of the End of the Road Festival in Dorset, England, on September 10, 2010.[22] At the end of August 2010, Minor Mouse played on the primary stage at the Leeds and Reading festivals.

On May 29, Pocket-size Mouse played ii new songs during their headline of the Sasquatch festival. The songs were chosen "Poisonous substance the Well" and "Lampshades on Fire".[23] They then contributed a embrace of the Buddy Holly vocal "That'll Be the Day" to the compilation Rave On Buddy Holly, which was released on June 28, 2011. Modest Mouse played at Splendour in the Grass in Woodford, Queensland on July 29, 2011,[24] and at The Warfield in San Francisco on January 25, 2012.

In 2012, Modest Mouse underwent a significant lineup change, which included the departure of founding bassist Eric Judy and percussionist Joe Plummer, replaced by Russell Higbee (formerly of Homo Human being) and Berlin, NH-born Davey Brozowski, respectively. The lineup besides included the additions of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Lisa Molinaro, and percussionist Ben Massarella, the latter of whom previously played percussion on The Moon & Antarctica.

In June of that aforementioned year, Pitchfork.tv released a 45-infinitesimal documentary on The Lonesome Crowded West, which included archival footage taken during alive performances and original recording/mix sessions.[25]

Modest Mouse played a Saturday afternoon set at the inaugural Firefly Music Festival in July 2012. Small-scale Mouse was one of the main acts in the Skillful Vibes Festival held in Sepang, Malaysia on Baronial 17, 2013. The lineup featured other internationally renowned bands such equally Dandy Pumpkins, Ash, and Japandroids.[26] In April 2013, Modest Mouse performed at Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. They also performed at the 2014 Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in May 2014. They later performed equally a headliner at Shaky Knees music festival in Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 2014, and besides headlined Sunday May 25 at Boston Calling in Massachusetts. Modest Mouse then performed at Hudson Valley Music Project in Saugerties, NY in July, 2014. The band's final performance of 2014 took place in Inglewood, California during the almanac KROQ About Acoustic Christmas.

In the autumn of 2014 Modest Mouse re-released their get-go two albums, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Aught to Think About and The Lonesome Crowded W, on CD and vinyl through Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace tape characterization.

Strangers to Ourselves & The Golden Casket: 2015–present [edit]

Eight years subsequently the release of We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Pocket-size Mouse released Strangers to Ourselves on March 17, 2015. On December 13, 2014, the championship and release engagement were confirmed to be in early on 2015. Two days later, Pocket-sized Mouse released the lead single "Lampshades on Fire" which debuted on Twin Cities public radio station 89.iii The Current. On December 16, 2014, Pocket-size Mouse made Strangers to Ourselves available for pre-social club for CD and LP formats on the Glacial Step website and on the iTunes store.

In 2015, Brock described the follow-up album to Strangers to Ourselves as being similar a role two to the latter album that they would try to release every bit soon as legally possible.[27] The follow-upwards album has besides been said to feature at least one song with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.[28] Throughout 2019, the band released three standalone singles; "Poison the Well" on March 29, "I'm All the same Here" on April xviii, and "Ice Cream Party" on November 15.

Modest Mouse released their 7th studio album, The Golden Casket, on June 25, 2021.[29] The album's first single, "Nosotros Are Between", was released on May 5,[29] followed by its second single, "Leave a Light On", released on May 24. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, music critic Mark Richardson gave a mixed review of the anthology.[30] Richardson described the tracks on the kickoff half of the album as "sound[ing] like decorated arrangements in search of a vocal," and noted that "Mr. Brock'south ear for hooks just barely rescues the tracks from the seriously overstuffed product."[30] Richardson noted that the back half of the anthology contained the biggest highlights, which he described as "quite adept." Richardson was peculiarly fond of the anthology'due south stripped-downwardly finale, "Back to the Middle," which he noted "hints at what should be [the ring'due south] next modify-upwards: Keep it uncomplicated. If the songs are stiff and the performances are there, guitar, bass and drums volition be more than enough.[30]

In an interview in 2022, celebrating xv years of "We Were Dead earlier The Send Fifty-fifty Sank", Isaac Brock and Johnny Marr revealed that Marr had rejoined the ring and were writing songs together again, the outset of which is chosen "Rivers of Rivers". The writing took place in a "pen pal" kind of way, with Brock maxim that more songs to be developed in 2022 together "one time the earth tilts dorsum on its axis".

Members [edit]

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

  • This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think Almost (1996)
  • The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
  • The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
  • Adept News for People Who Dear Bad News (2004)
  • We Were Dead Before the Ship Fifty-fifty Sank (2007)
  • Strangers to Ourselves (2015)
  • The Golden Casket (2021)

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Further reading [edit]

  • Smith, RJ (July 2000). "Caught in a Trap". Spin. p. 138.

External links [edit]

  • Official Pocket-sized Mouse website
  • Minor Mouse at AllMusic

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mouse

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