Modest Mouse’s ‘Strangers to Ourselves’ album is now available to stream.
Expecting Modest Mouse, or more specifically, Isaac Brock to play by the rules is a practice in futility. Waiting over eight years since their 2007 release of ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank’, could have easily dealt a death blow to other bands in an era where musicians are idolized, consumed, and forgotten within the span of a single blog post. But somehow the patchwork, even messy at times, collection of tracks on ‘Strangers To Ourselves’, works as a perfect cohesive unit.
It’s obvious on “‘Strangers to Ourselves’ that Modest Mouse struggled not only with themselves as a band, but how to once again carve out their paper thin niche between indie rock legends and major label success story. But, in all actuality, we should just be thankful it happened at all.
Strangers To Ourselves explores space, time, and human existence throughout its fifteen tracks, themes that are omnipresent in all of Modest Mouse’s work, and constantly forces the listener to delve deeply into what it means to be a stranger in a world where everything, and everyone, are at all times connected.
