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Friday, March 2, 2007

Music Someday You Will Die and Something’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon.

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Mar 2 at 9:17 AM

The new Modest Mouse album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, is excellent.

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Album’s (officially) out on 3/20. Two (sold out) shows @ the Crystal on 3/14 and 3/15.

That’s all.

Comments

erik. i have listened to this album multiple times hoping it would recover something of the voice and passion found in issac brock at his best (interstate 8, long drive, moon antarctica).

how can you not outright call this album shit? were you fond of good news?

[Part of this comment was edited due to slanderous content.Ed.] plus, dont they write the same song a hundred times over?

soundtrack to ghost rider

garbage.

I agree with E.H. on this one. Definitely better than the last album, maybe even on a par with Moon and Antarctica. Probably not as good as Lonesome Crowded West. But good. Every band writes the same song a hundred times over. That's a lame lame lame argument.

so your standards are lowered because the last album was such complete piss and that makes this album 'good'.

w/e.

So, if we haven't really listened to or studied the previous albums (except for that groovy Float On song), are we allowed to like the songs on this one if we, you know, *like* them?

The rules are so confusing these days.

xoxo

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