Good News For People Who Love Bad News
- Modest Mouse
- Band Name: Modest Mouse
- Record Label: Sony
- Release Date: Apr 6, 2004
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100Ultimately, what makes Good News so successful is that it retains the melancholy mood of past works, while at the same time adding depth and maturity.
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100Half expansive, burnished radio-rock, half swampy Delta hoodoo-hollerin' that reeks of Brock's Southern sojourn. [May 2004, p.103]
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92It's passionate. It's thoughtful. It's catchy. It's their breakout moment, their best record, and... it will be one of the best albums of 2004.[#9, p.100]
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Weathered now, their herky-jerk stands up smartly to interjections from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
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A real-life pop record. Well, not pop in the Girls Aloud sense of the word obviously, more in the drop-dead, fuzz-box brilliant 'Here Comes Your Man' sense. [10 Jul 2004, p.48]
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Even though this album isn't as immediately or showily brilliant as The Moon & Antarctica, Good News for People Who Love Bad News reveals itself as just as strong a statement.
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90Never happily slotting into any template demanded back in their home town, MM are nearer to some wondrous mish-mash of Pavement and Beck; closer in harmony to The Flaming Lips.
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90A daring yet accessible disc.
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The best Modest Mouse album yet.
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85Review 1: Unequivocally great, a logical progression in style and scope. [score=90]; Review 2: A record that manages to balance a swarm of new ideas with their most steadfast and well-loved tricks. [score=80]
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[A] Tom Waits-ian reinvention. [9 Apr 2004, p.84]
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83If there's a touchstone band for this album, it's Little Creatures-era Talking Heads cranking out songs that are joyously eccentric, celebratory and catchy.
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Negative: 8 out of 111
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methe3Goodbye old modest mouse.
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8I enjoyed it. I've only listened to it once so I'm not to sure how it will hold up over many listens, but so far so good.