Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica - 1h 4m 23s

Tracks & Durations

1. 3rd Planet	4:04
2. Gravity Rides Everything	4:26
3. Dark Center of the Universe	5:08
4. Perfect Desguise	2:47
5. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes	3:47
6. Different City	3:12
7. Cold Part	5:07
8. Alone Down There	2:27
9. Stars Are Projectors	8:51
10. Wild Packs of Family Dogs	5:18
11. Paper Thin Walls	3:05
12. I Came as a Rat	3:52
13. Lives	3:22
14. Life Like Weds	6:34
15. What People Are Made Of	2:14

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Review

With their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world. Rarely giving off the cage-jarring thickness of guitar rock, Moon's 15 tunes are shaped around vignettes of a disheveled head figuring out the rambling disconnections of postmodern society. Guitars wobble, Brock wails on vocals, and his band mates--Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green--help take each song away from any predictable formula and toward wherever they seem to want to go. This is a band as profoundly touched by suburbia as was writer Harold Brodkey. You can imagine Brock, Green, and Judy lying on wide-open lawns, philosophizing about the shape of the universe and coming up with lyric moments like this (sung to folky, spare acoustic guitar): "A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard and as my own dog ran away I didn't say much of anything at all / A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard as my little sister played; the dogs took her away, and I guess she was eaten up, okay." Replays of American Beauty, anyone? --Andrew Bartlett

Other Versions

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The Moon & Antarctica

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 1h 3m 26s (-1m 3s)

The Moon & Antarctica

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 59m 43s (-5m 20s)

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