Recently my friends took a trip out west and by chance got to get a tour of the studio. Story goes that one of my friends had seen a video online of the outside of the building and spent the whole day hunting it down and eventually found it. They said they saw someone leaving the building and asked him if they could get a tour to which he pondered and eventually let them.

Out 11/6. Heart of Gold covers/tribute series.

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I’m going to see Isaac and company rock the riverside theater in Milwaukee in August. I’ve always been a big fan of their Long Drive - We were dead run of work but never gave the three modern albums much attention (I know the latest one is less than a month old). Now I figured I needed to do a full discography marathon before the show and figured I’d work in reverse.

I adore the new album as it seems to be a good bridge between earlier and later material. The opener rips with one of the catchiest choruses of a MM song. Other tracks like Dogbed and Look How Far… feel like homages to albums like Good News and The Moon.

Then I reached The Golden Casket and went in with poor expectations due to its reception in the community over all. However I really like it so far. No doubt it’s way more poppy than previous works but you can tell that this is the exact record that the group wanted to make at the time. Nothing feels forced and the synth pop elements with heavy reverb infused chanting vocal passages remind me of an MGMT or Empire of the Sun record.

I’m not in love with everything here and I feel like Fuck Your Acid Trip is the weakest opener of the discography but the work as a whole is far from “bad” in my opinion. Anyone else echo this sentiment?

The moon is still the best album of 2000

Supposedly he’s worked with Isaac & Co. in the past as a vocals instructor. Never knew Isaac took lessons for singing. It isn’t surprising to me, but I’m finding it interesting that I’m only now seeing this after more than two decades of being an MM fan.

Only 1 hour old, very fresh

Is the modest mouse vip “worth it” what’s the vibe? From a 20 year for hard core Issac fan gurl

love these templates. give me your picks

Idk why but it just needs that extra something to send it over the edge to a perfect MM song

hi i wanna hear your favorite modest mouse songs feel free to critque my work ill start with my top 15 every single one of these songs are beautiful and seriously the top one is hard for the first 8 songs

1 3rd planet

2 medication

3 trailer trash

4 talking shit about a pretty sunset

5 out of gas

6 night on the sun

7 other peoples lives

8 cowboy dan

9 heart cooks brain

10 the good times are killing me

11 history sticks to your feet

12 edit the sad parts

13 baby blue sedan

14 grey ice water

15 polar opposites

honorable mentions from point a to point b, paper thin walls, dark center of the universe

random tray cake shopping at albertsons/vons/safeway.

Been looking around on YouTube but haven't found much. Some links would be much appreciated. Thanks!