Modest Mouse have announced a new album, ‘An Eraser And A Maze’, and shared the eccentric track ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’. Find all the details below.
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Their eighth studio album will also mark their first in five years – following on from 2021’s ‘The Golden Casket’ – and is due for release on June 5 via Glacial Pace Recordings.
So far, they’ve shared one track, ‘Look How Far’, which has now been followed up with the high-octane opening song ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’.
The track opens with a grating, captivating guitar riff, before unfolding into a glitchy, optimistic anthemic chorus that sees the band pick apart a manipulative, self-destructive world.
Check it out below.
‘An Eraser And A Maze’ was produced by frontman Isaac Brock, as well as Jackknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Suzy Shinn (Weezer, panic at the disco), and Justin Raisin (Charli xcx, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty). Per a press release, it sonically captures every era of the band.
While 2021’s ‘The Golden Casket’, attempted to find silver linings in the post-pandemic world, Brock says of the themes for this record: “For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen. Even though every goddamn musician says that when they put out a record. I mean, go ahead and listen to the three-minute mark of any interview between a musician and Terry Gross …”
“Thoughts, emotions, feelings, all that stuff … you’re like the soup, and it’s not always easy to pick out the ingredients. I don’t dwell on things much. I don’t grieve much. I’m not sure I’m a person. I feel like I should have more feelings than I do. But then, you know, I’ll sing stuff. And I’m like, Oh, there it is. Oh — it’s in there.”
Modest Mouse’s ‘An Eraser And A Maze’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’
2. ‘Remember Yourself’
3. ‘Life’s A Dream’
4. ‘Third Side Of The Moon’
5. ‘Dogbed in Heaven/Give It A Skeleton’
6. ‘Interlude’
7. ‘I Can’t Talk Right Now’
8. ‘Speak ‘N Spell’ (Or Not)
9. ‘Rotten Fruit’ (feat. Justin Raisin)
10. ‘Knocked Down By Waves’
11. ‘Absolutely Necessary Never’
12. ‘Song About Nothing’
13. ‘Stoner Party’
14. ‘Look How Far’
15. ‘Impossible Somedays’
In other news, Modest Mouse are set to play Bonnaroo on Sunday, June 14 this year.