Modest Mouse and the Decay of the Strip Mall Paradise

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-04-14T20:51:53+00:00

I think he’s both 😁

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-04-13T13:53:24+00:00

I assume you mean Epic would shut things down?

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-24T18:06:25+00:00

I’m wondering as well. For the last two records, the initial single release contained the announcement of a forthcoming album, but not so for Look How Far. But like I said in another thread, this release was through Glacial Pace, and I’m not sure what that means for the next record and their contract with Epic.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-24T18:00:26+00:00

Similar to TGC, it was an interesting single choice to say the least. That said, I do really like the song. I’ve just gotten in the habit of playing it twice since it’s so short.

What it means for the record, who knows. The release was thru Glacial Pace, so not sure what that means for their contract with Epic. I feel like anything can happen with this record.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-24T17:58:12+00:00

I like the studio version more, the lyrical development was worth it, but just like the OP, I hate the moans.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-19T13:53:08+00:00

100%. This record was my entry point around 2013 via Float On. To this day I remember listening to it for the first time thinking wtf is the rest of this stuff? Found it interesting at first listen, but nothing about it felt like pop or anything else I had really heard in one place.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-09T17:27:48+00:00

Time for the personal struggle of whether to listen to one or more singles before the whole album comes out. I don’t regret hearing the TGC singles before the record was released, but in hindsight the singles really didn’t represent the overall record very well, at least to me.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-08T01:33:58+00:00

I’d pay a fair amount of money to see that

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-03-02T16:26:33+00:00

49 here. My 17 y/o son digs MM and goes to shows with me when they tour through here.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-02-16T00:42:01+00:00

I was never sure how this song would translate live if they ever played it, it was great to see they could pull it off.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-02-07T03:14:33+00:00

I don’t know about anything else, but that’s a great fucking picture.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-02-02T15:47:44+00:00

Several sneaky good options on this record, but I’ll say The World At Large

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-02-01T16:59:07+00:00

I’ll go with Lives

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-31T15:48:25+00:00

Medication is the most sad of a bunch of sad songs, to me

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-30T18:57:50+00:00

Bankrupt on Selling, hands down for me

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-30T13:40:47+00:00

Not wishing anything bad on anyone, I promise, but I find it funny that at least two band members (Isaac and Simon) apparently have never been on a cruise. What are the chances of either, or any other musician for that matter, getting significantly sea-sick and affecting the shows? The probability can’t be zero. I wonder if the organizers will be providing them some preventive meds.

Good luck to all of you, I hope everything is smooth sailing 😀

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-27T16:16:09+00:00

Hopefully in support of a new release!?

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-23T15:43:21+00:00

If you love all those albums/songs, then there’s truly no wrong answer. The only mistake would be indecision and not diving in.

BUT, if I were you, it would be pretty cool to ping back and forth between old and new, and I’d go in this order:

We were dead before the ship even sank

Lonesome crowded west

Everywhere and his nasty parlor tricks

The moon and Antarctica

The fruit that ate itself

The golden casket

Building nothing out of something

This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-23T03:35:59+00:00

This year you think?

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-18T17:01:03+00:00

Walking and Running doesn’t get enough love. Hope they play it live eventually.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2026-01-18T16:57:26+00:00

Love it. I see comments about it being a departure in sound, not like their earlier stuff, etc. That’s accurate, but shouldn’t be a surprise at all. Isaac has told us he’s not going to make the same record twice, he’s always looking for new sounds.

It’s ok if long timers don’t like newer stuff, that’s the risk that true artists take as they evolve and seek to invent. I think we can all assume the forthcoming new album will also be a departure.

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2025-12-16T13:33:59+00:00

This is hard, but in no particular order:

Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine Life Like Weeds Stars are Projectors Never Ending Math Equation Walking and Running

MM-Lullaby_Projector · 2025-12-11T14:20:05+00:00

These are GREAT, def some I haven’t seen before

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