Modest Mouse released their first album in 1996, entitled “This is A Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About” and music was finally perfected. Beethoven and Mozart were pretty helpful, the Beatles did their job, but Modest Mouse took the concept of recording multiple songs into a compilation and created an equilibrium of sound that is truly flawless… perfect. The album condenses 16 tracks with ranging ideologies from modernistic philosophies to the analysis of the archetypal ‘prom queen’ to a smooth 74 minutes and 3 seconds. Fuzzy guitars pave the way bending their strings to direct you on a curvy path to audible bliss.
Now Modest Mouse isn’t for everybody, those of you who do not enjoy great music would probably not like this album. A first time listener would experience the slightly lisping Isaac Brock singing tainted melodies and dropping lyrical bombs of knowledge. When the listener reaches the third track “Custom Concern”, and hears Brock lament “I get up just about noon, my head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk, gotta go to work, gotta go to work gotta get a job” they will reach a level of relation and introspection that is truly rewarding. The album is full of these great lyrics and is our introduction to Brocks signature lyrical style of metaphors and clever word play as found in the hard hitting, unsettlingly melodic “Exit Does Not Exist”.
If you are on a long drive, or you simply don’t have anything to think about, or you just enjoy great music, this album is for you. It’s clever lyrics will get you thinking, while the solid beat and antique sound of the guitars will ease the away the boredom. Listen to the album all the way through and experience life, experience sound, experience the Mouse.
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