Modest Mouse Announce US Tour, Share New Single Leave a Light On
By Jason Friedman | May 24, 2021 | 2:59pm
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Ahead of their forthcoming album
The Golden Casket, out June 25 on Epic Records, iconic alt-rockers Modest Mouse have shared new single “Leave a Light On.” The track, which follows previous single “We Are Between,” is a textural diversion for Modest Mouse, playing with sputtering percussive effects and lush, pop-inspired pads. “Leave a Light On” finds singer Isaac Brock, per press release, “navigating the existential threat of losing our humanity and the interconnectedness that come with it amidst a constant societal barrage of physical and digital materialism.”
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Sam Beam just sorta stumbled into Iron & Wine. When he moved to Tallahassee to attend graduate school at Florida State Universityâs College of Motion Picture Arts in the late 1990s, writing songs was merely a hobby. It was more like an extension of his filmmaking, and he didnât think much of the music he did make, at least not until a friend lent him a four-track recorder. Setting his songs to tape and playing them back, Beam could actually hear them for the first time. He started making decisions about structure, lyrics, melodies, arrangements, and vocals. Through another friend, he landed a song on a compilation by the Portland-based
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looks like it’s still stuck in 1999), Barker was asked if people get offended by Blink. “We’ve had other bands say something. We played with some, like, independent rocker bands, and they were kooks. One time we were talking about vagina and telling the girls to show us their tits, and this band got all mad,” he said. “They said it’s lame to talk about boobs to your audience. I just wanted to tell them to grow up. This one band from Washington called Modest Mouse was super bummed at us. They said we talked about dick and vagina too much, and that we offended everyone. But it’s all good.”