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Returning with their first new album in six years, Modest Mouse will release their anxiously awaited seventh full-length, The Golden Casket, on June 25 via Epic Records. Pre-order/Pre-save The Golden Casket HERE. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi platinum band has shared the first single off the release, the anthemic “We Are Between,” a song driven by Brock’s trademark vocals vacillating between sonic isolation and the support of a full chorus, with lyrics alternating between “the best” and “the worst” parts, determining that “we are somewhere between the dust and the stars.”
The Golden Casket heralds another new chapter in the band’s unpredictable evolution. Produced with Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee in Los Angeles and in Modest Mouse’s studio in Portland, the album hovers in the liminal space between raw punk power and experimental studio science, frontman Isaac Brock explores themes ranging from the degradation of our psychic landscape
News Round-Up: John Lennon, Modest Mouse
News Round-Up: John Lennon, Modest Mouse 9 May, 2021
Our recap of the stories we featured during the past seven days a charity tribute to John Lennon and something brand new from Modest Mouse.
Maxi Jazz of Faithless and KT Tunstall are some of the artists who feature on a John Lennon tribute album which has been given a digital release of June 11th, raising money for War Child.
Sepp Osley and his band Blurred Vision led the concert when it was held last year, taking guests through some of Lennon’s best loved Beatles and solo work, such as Strawberry Fields Forever, Don’t Let Me Down and Instant Karma.
By Matt Berry
Modest Mouse announced they will release their new album,
The Golden Casket, on June 25th – their first album in 6 years – and with that, a lead single called
We Are Between:
Modest Mouse has officially returned as the band has finally announced their first new album in six years, The Golden Casket, and shared the first taste of
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Modest Mouse Announces First New Album in Six Years It’s the band’s first album since 2015′s “Strangers to Ourselves,” which itself arrived eight years after “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.” IMAGE: James Joiner. A lot has happened in the six years since Modest Mouse last released an album. Given all that, perhaps it’s understandable that Brock and his cohorts haven’t found much time for actual music making. But it appears the hiatus is over: The indie-rock heavyweights are releasing their seventh studio album,