Jonathan Cohen Since its improbable 2004 mainstream breakthrough via the single “Float On” and the accompanying album “Good News for People Who Love Bad News,” Modest Mouse has released just two other full-lengths in the ensuing 17 years.
During that time, the Isaac Brock-led outfit has further established itself as a compelling, no-two-shows-the-same live act and something of a standard-bearer for the legion of critically acclaimed rock bands who jumped from indies to major labels in the early 2000s without sacrificing creative control.Indeed, Modest Mouse has now been signed to Epic for more than two decades, and on the new “The Golden Casket,” out June 25, the group continues to make inscrutable and unpredictable music far removed from.
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