The Moon & Antarctica
- Modest Mouse
- Band Name: Modest Mouse
- Record Label: Sony
- Release Date: Jun 13, 2000
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100Moment for moment, there's not a more significant collection of songs to spend your life with...
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98For the first time, Modest Mouse craft an album, not a collection of songs. That they manage to go beyond any other rock band out there is staggering.... OK Computer must be mentioned, for Modest Mouse just got invited to the same club.
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Production notwithstanding, the major-label move is the lyric sheet, which situates their circular minor-key riffs in a congruent worldview: eternal recurrence as infinite regress as cosmic bummer.
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An absolutely awesome album.
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Their most cohesive collection of songs to date...
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90Clocking in at an hour, and incorporating much schizophrenic style-hopping, this is far from the concession to one-dimensional economy often required for a major-label debut. [#47, p.53]
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90The Moon's musical and thematic diversity is glued together by Brooks' ability to instill even the most desolate musical climes with warmth and emotion.... One of the year's most oddly endearing records so far.
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Plaintive, nakedly honest lyrics collide with keen observation... an hour of enrapturing atmosphere.
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Jack10Oh yes... Ohhh yes.
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10Staggering. A masterpiece of sound, ambition, ambiance, and songwriting, this album is something that no alt-rock collection is complete without.
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