It was just a tad overlong, and the climate has worsened in those couple of short years since. ![]() Not that The Lonesome Crowded West wasn't amazing. ![]() But it wasn't until Building Nothing Out of Something slipped into my possession that I became convinced that Modest Mouse, strangely, might be saviors. I've witnessed Isaac Brock scream into his guitar pickups inside a packed bar in Atlanta while my then-girlfriend got sick and fainted. I read Pitchfork's official "weirdest interview ever" with Modest Mouse before I was even on the staff. I've listened to Modest Mouse grow progressively better and more profound since their 1996 debut, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. One of which, of course, is Modest Mouse. And what sort of angel-driven crane has pulled me up from the quagmires, you ask? A handful of bands. ![]() This is why I eat hotdogs and oatmeal and type until 4:00am instead of cutting up cadavers at Emory. ![]() Chalk those layers up to loitering in the grime of mid-20's doldrums. But lately, I've experienced a little metanoia the thin jaded layers that built up in 1999 have flaked away.
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