“I imagine our trajectory would have been significantly different without it, but we would still be going. How does Brock reflect on Float On now? “I still feel good about it because I’m okay not playing it in every show – I try not to let it take priority over other songs when playing live,” he says.
#Modest mouse float on tv#
It was nominated for a Grammy, featured in The OC and One Tree Hill, and endured longer than these TV shows with a remarkable 242 million plays on Spotify to date. In all, The Golden Casket is arguably Modest Mouse’s most accessible album yet, and that’s a feat given 2004 Good News for People Who Love Bad News gave the band a new audience with monster tracks like Ocean Breathes Salty and Float On.
So he figured out that it’s best not to get hung up on being too meticulous, and just to get in there, make it interesting and keep it going fast.”
#Modest mouse float on professional#
“I’ll try not to speak for him, but he did say at one point he’d got very professional and producing records started to lose its fun. Within 10 minutes of starting, without a song in our belly, we had a lot to work with, like kettle drums and an instrument his daughter out of pickle jars and a big string. "Last week I went down to California and started to do more work with him. "It was the first time I worked with him, and it was fun," says Brock says of Jacknife Lee. The sound was crafted by producer Dave Sardy (LCD Soundsystem, Band of Horses), with Dublin-born Garrett “Jacknife” Lee (U2, Snow Patrol and REM) brought in to give it a second sweep where needed. I wanted to get to the point most of the time,” Brock explains. “I didn’t feel like stressing anyone’s patience and take a loose, wandering trip with this.
Though musically broad with a myriad of instruments, sounds and effects, The Golden Casket is punchier compared to previous albums, from its zany start (the Super Furry Animals-esque F**k Your Acid Trip) to its lush, guitar-laden finish (Back to the Middle). You can use your mind to create a good scenario, but it all takes work.” You can wallow in the idea that we just helplessly f**k things up, but you can also project the positive. But then the key portion of the song is me taking a breath and it’s okay, and zen-ing out on it.” Seeing positives “is something I have to work towards. Wooden Soldiers, meanwhile, “begins as a telling of our observed spiral as a species. This fed in to the lyrical themes of the album, as heard in Transmitting Receiving and lead track Leave a Light On. I spent a lot of time thinking about the obvious and not so obvious ways that seemingly simple technologies, from phones to radios, can affect everything’s brain on earth”. Otherwise, Brock has been wrapped up in “conspiracy theories, largely. Modest Mouse: ‘We’re in the process of finding out what to bang and what to scrape to make these sounds’ “There’s a lot less yelling involved, and in a couple of songs, I at least try to tear at the subject matter to something I wouldn’t feel bad about my kids hearing.” “More often than not it meant I leaned away from being too abrasive,” he says. “Those eight songs still exist, but my head was somewhere else and I didn’t want to put them out as this particular album and I decided to move them down the line,” he explains, finally settled in one spot. The Golden Casket took almost as long, with its six-year interlude spent touring and working on a potential companion piece to Strangers to Ourselves that included a contribution from ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, before Brock paused it and started afresh. It’s where Modest Mouse began writing the follow-up to 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves, an album that reintroduced their abstract indie rock after an eight-year gap.
#Modest mouse float on full#
It's flooded with light and homely, crammed with plants, knick-knacks, electronic equipment and instruments, although he humbly describes it as "a warehouse full of crap right now". By accident rather than design, Isaac Brock, the lead singer of Modest Mouse, gives a Zoom tour of his studio in Portland, Oregon, as he searches for a location to sit with his laptop and tea.
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