![]() Following up their 2004 commercially successful release of Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse has stuck largely to their uniquely odd style of music. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is a combination of many styles of music with lead singer Isaac Brock’s voice acting as the common link between each song. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2004 Vinyl release of Good News For People Who Love Bad News on Discogs. ![]() By Kimberly Powers Modest Mouse’s latest album, Good News for People Who LoveBad News, comes out today after a four-year hiatus since therelease of the band’s major-label debut. Since then, frontmanIsaac Brock has recorded Sharpen Your Teeth under the name UglyCasanova with Red Red Meat’s Tim Rutili and Brian Deck, TheBlack Procession’s Pall Jenkins, and Brock’s friendJohn Orth. The fact that Ugly Casanova has had a larger impact onGood News than 2000’s The Moon and Antarctica is more thanfitting considering that Brock is the last Mouse remaining of theoriginal Issaquah, Wash. Good News is easily the most straightforward of ModestMouse’s albums; Modest Mouse devotees will not find the long,prog rock jams that characterized the band’s first twoalbums. Instead, Brock has enlisted The Dirty Dozen Brass Band toincorporate blaring brass into already taut guitar, drum, banjo andsynth arrangements. It seems Brock has learned from Sharpen YourTeeth that Modest Mouse, as a formerly independent,”lo-fi” band in the vein of Pavement, could sharpentheir tunes with more instrumentation. “Bukowksi” is the best example of how Modest Mousehas learned to musically polish their songs. Primarily acombination of banjo and synth, the track includes smidges of bassclarinet, strings and horns to lend to the song’s anxiousatmosphere. The song continually builds to disappointing, albeitappropriate, decrescendos. Similarly, Brock has utilized his voiceon this track to reflect its God-questioning content; in thepenultimate verse of “Bukowski,” he lowers his voice toa melodic growl while laying it above a typical, quirky and gratingBrockian vocal track to sing, “Well, all that icing on allthat cake, I can’t make it to your wedding but I’m sureI’ll make it to your wake.” Though signed to Sony’s Epic label, Modest Mouse haveremained true to their musical content. Good News is full ofpostmodern musings about death, afterlife, religion and suburbia.In “The Ocean Breathes Salty,” Brock asserts that thewaster of life will also waste death. More sympathetically, Brockdefines humans as burning buildings “waiting for time to burnus down” in “Blame it on the Tetons” before thesong leads into what could be considered the only “jam”on the album: a solo fluctuating between piano and violin. Sound editing applications for mac. The application is designed to make music editing very easy and fun. Also, there are lots of new features in this app that you will come to know after using this cool app on your Android device. Also Read: #3 Media Converter The another best audio editing app for your Android that allows you to edit your media according to your wish. Media Converter allows you to convert all kinds of media formats to popular media formats: mp3, mp4 mpeg4, aac, Ogg, Avi (mpeg4, mp3), MPEG (mpeg1, mp2), Flv (Flv, mp3) and WAV. Also, audio profiles: m4a (aac-audio only), 3ga (aac-audio only), OGA (FLAC-audio only) are available for convenience. This application also supports merging of audio files. Though Brock tones down the quirk in his voice for “Blameit on the Tetons,” he fails to do this on many of thealbum’s other songs. The used self titled rar. While criticisms of early Modest Mousecited the band’s musical inability to keep up withBrock’s heart-felt lyrics and vocals, it seems that Brock isunable to keep up with the musical success of Good News.”Dance Hall,” a perky, swing-like track with a wailingguitar solo, is ruined with Brock’s guttural screams. Thesong sounds far worse than it really is: within the context of therest of Good News, any listener can tell that Brock could’vewritten a much better melody for this track. As long as one has an operable skip button on his or her stereo(for “Dance Hall”), Good News is a great album. ModestMouse has stayed on its path of creating undefinable music.
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