9/18/2023 0 Comments Sleigh bells ep 2009 zipLead single “Lampshades on Fire” is the sort of competent post-“Float On” romp we’ve come to expect from the Pacific Northwest outfit: a bitter pill (in this case, a fatalist freakout about climate change) made sweet with eccentric uplift (the “bah-bah-bah” refrain, fat-bottomed groove, and sleigh-bell jingle). To be clear: Strangers to Ourselves - Modest Mouse’s sixth album and first in nearly a decade - isn’t without its bright spots. Eight years and this is it? After several false starts, reports of curious collaborations with two fulcrums from all-time great bands ( Big Boi! Krist Novoselic!), an abandoned tour, and an odds-and-ends stopgap EP, this is what we get? A rudderless 15-song set that slightly improves the standing of 2007’s middle-of-the-moat We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank?
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