Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (June 25, 2021) • Page 12

Can’t wait to dig into the lyrics

 

Really digging Transmitting Receiving. Real weird.

 

2 listens in….loveeeee this!

 

Wooden Soldiers is really something

 

"My friend's house is full of very, very helpful nurses/Some days they have birthdays there and some days they have hearses"

really like that line in "Leave a Light On"

 

+1. Brock has this talent for doing these kind of nursery-rhyme melodies without them sounding like, well... nursery rhymes.

 

Wow, I’m actually into this one. Im not really into Strangers, but I love We Were Dead.

 

he said in an interview that they're still working on the album they recorded at the same time as Strangers, and the "Poison the Well" singles are all from that album. the stuff on this is all totally new

 

"Poison the Well" rips

 

yeah it's pretty good. the other two singles from that year are..... uhhhh bad

 

Back to the Middle rules so much

 

We’re lucky should be the closer.

 

Back to the Middle might be my favorite on the record

 

Ice Cream Party was the best of the one-off singles

 

I don't mind any of the one-off singles tbh

 

Given this a few listens now and it’s unfortunately not doing much for me. Wooden Soldiers, We’re Lucky, and the closer are the only ones that really stand out.

 

The only tracks I skip are Lace Your Shoes (nice but I don't have kids & don't want 'em so...) & Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly (the metaphor doesn't land for me). Digging all the rest and the through-line of most of the tracks about being in the middle/in-between two things.

 

so far my favorite line on this is

It takes a lifetime to ever figure out that there
There ain't no lifetime that's ever figured out

 

This is so much better than anticipated. Which seems to be the consensus.

“Transmitting Receiving” is stellar. “We’re Lucky”, “Japanese Trees”, “Never Fuck a Spider on the Fly”, “Wooden Soldiers” and “Back to the Middle” are all standouts.

a lot of the others are songs I don’t really need to ever go back to, but 6 really good MM songs this late into their career is pretty awesome.

 

They are a pretty strange band, and yet they have better modern radio rock sensibilities than most bands. Crazy how their sound has seamlessly allowed for their kind of success. It’s like “no way” on paper and then you hear it and go “well duh” this works

 

I officially love this record

 

"Fuck Your Acid Trip" >>>

that chorus is so goddamn good and indicative of the record as a whole

 

yeah when I first put this on and that hook came in I was immediately like oh wow, is this gonna be the vibe? and it was

 

that song is in my head all day every day and im not even mad about it

 

Agree. My first spin of this was in the hot morning after a long night out. Brain was in a fog & also the perfect setting for this whole thing haha