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Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 57:00 minutes | 1,17 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Strangers to Ourselves" is the sixth album by American alternative rock band Modest Mouse. Reviews of "Strangers to Ourselves" represent a diverse mix of opinions on the album. The album holds a score of 70 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews".


Perhaps the success of "Float On" discombobulated Isaac Brock even more than we suspected. Surely, there were signs of aimlessness on We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, the 2007 sequel to the surprise 2004 smash Good News for People Who Love Bad News, a record where hired gun Johnny Marr was brought aboard to give the band a jolt. This booster shot wore off quickly and Brock receded from the spotlight, sitting out the better part of a decade before re-emerging with Strangers to Ourselves in the spring of 2015. In the interim, he shed longterm collaborator Eric Judy – he left sometime around 2012, replaced by Russell Higbee – added guitarist Jim Fairchild and auxiliary player Lisa Molinaro, attempted to record an album with Big Boi, toyed with bringing Krist Novoselic aboard, then finally decided to get back to where he once belonged. Brock's return to roots is naturally a roundabout of detours, a record that bounces between stylized eccentricity and streamlined strangeness, stopping occasionally to soak in a scenic, dreamy view. Strangers to Ourselves starts at this hazy point, swooning with a narcotic sway that recalls peak Mercury Rev, but it's not long before Modest Mouse begins bouncing at a syncopation that recalls "Float On," just one of many deliberate references to the ghosts of alt-rock past haunting Strangers to Ourselves. "Pistol" skeeves out like a disco-fied outtake from Ween's Pure Guava, the carnivalesque "Sugar Boats" lurches forward on a circus piano reminiscent of Blur, "The Best Room" circles around a guitar riff that echoes Space Ghost Coast to Coast, each a signal that Brock is comfortable keeping the dream of the '90s. The trick is, he now has the skill of a consummate craftsman, so the raggedness here comes across as deliberate, probably because the moments that are less consciously quirky – i.e., the bulk of the album – are so skillfully constructed. So, Strangers to Ourselves is an album where the trees matter more than the forest: song for song, it demonstrates the exacting nature of Brock but put it all together, it sprawls.

Tracklist:

01 - Strangers to Ourselves
02 - Lampshades On Fire
03 - Shit in Your Cut
04 - Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)
05 - Ansel
06 - The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
07 - Coyotes
08 - Pups to Dust
09 - Sugar Boats
10 - Wicked Campaign
11 - Be Brave
12 - God is an Indian and You're an Asshole
13 - The Tortoise and the Tourist
14 - The Best Room
15 - Of Course We Know

Analyzed: Modest Mouse / Strangers to Ourselves
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.16 dB -8.31 dB 3:24 01-Strangers to Ourselves
DR6 -0.16 dB -7.38 dB 3:08 02-Lampshades On Fire
DR5 -0.13 dB -6.63 dB 4:44 03-Shit in Your Cut
DR6 -0.16 dB -7.35 dB 3:42 04-Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)
DR5 -0.16 dB -7.67 dB 2:56 05-Ansel
DR4 -0.15 dB -5.16 dB 6:12 06-The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
DR5 -0.16 dB -8.47 dB 3:31 07-Coyotes
DR5 -0.16 dB -7.01 dB 3:31 08-Pups to Dust
DR5 -0.16 dB -6.14 dB 4:03 09-Sugar Boats
DR4 -0.16 dB -6.66 dB 3:34 10-Wicked Campaign
DR5 -0.16 dB -6.86 dB 3:31 11-Be Brave
DR7 -0.16 dB -11.19 dB 1:17 12-God is an Indian and You're an Asshole
DR5 -0.16 dB -6.41 dB 3:41 13-The Tortoise and the Tourist
DR4 -0.22 dB -6.17 dB 4:25 14-The Best Room
DR5 -0.16 dB -7.44 dB 5:22 15-Of Course We Know
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR5

Samplerate: 88200 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2686 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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