Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
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 Binding Audio CD. Artist(s): Modest Mouse. Publisher(s): Sony Music Canada. Label: Sony Music Canada.
| Fabricant: | Sony Music Canada Inc. |
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| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 12,51 $ |
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| Artist : | Modest Mouse |
| Directeur : | Modest Mouse |
| Distributor : | Sony |
| Format : | CD |
| Marque : | Sony Music Canada |
| music_track : | What People Are Made Of |
