I know I know this has happened so many times to me but everytime I still feel the need to complain and take offense. I started listening to Modest Mouse many many years ago while living in Seattle and being angry at the world. Despite the many horror stories from people who were one time close to Issak and his craziness, I still appreicated his raw honesty and blatantly destructive outlook on the world. It can really cheer you up with all the rain and fir trees looming around. I have been appeased until Sony came along and ruined my party and I can only assume Issak got money hungry. At the same time I don’t like blaming the major labels for the artists choice to go more mainstream with them music. I remember when they used to play off of a laptop on stage, before they had someone for every instrument and strange noise that he feeds off of.
The point is I listened to Dashboard today (www.myspace.com/modestmouse), their new song from the new record and well its overproduced (for Modest Mouse that is) and just even more mainstream than the last album. I can’t help but get bitter when my favorite bands from previous years loose their integrity. Usually crazy whack jobs like Issak are so errogant and stubborn they don’t let the influences get in but obviously something has taken over because the raw, unihibited Modest Mouse I once knew is gone. I realize there are still at least another 10 songs to change my mind that I have yet to hear but I am going to just prejudge and say that the band is right and they were dead before the ship even sank.
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