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Mar 23, 2015Strangers 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.
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MojoMar 19, 2015Even six listens in, this record offers few easy hand-holds. [Apr 2015, p.88]
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Mar 17, 2015It’s not all bad, but one can’t help but think that this fifteen-track recording is a long album for someone with nothing to say.
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Mar 16, 2015What’s frustrating about Strangers to Ourselves is that Modest Mouse doesn’t need to wander so far afield on it, not when doing what they do best still works well here.
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Mar 16, 2015It can be heavy going, most notably on the headache-inducing demented circus polka of Sugar Boats (imagine Tom Waits covering Fucik’s Entry of the Gladiators), and a gateway song such as 2004’s Float On wouldn’t have gone amiss, but this is a solid enough return.
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Mar 12, 2015The lack of progression is a shame, as the album’s chief lyrical theme--mankind’s disregard for nature--is one that needs hearing.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2015The genre pinballing can work--Brock pulls out his carney Tom Waits voice for Sugar Boats--but it's also uneven, unsteadying. [Apr 2015, p.94]
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Mar 19, 2015This band has never made an out-and-out bad album, but now it has made an uninspired one.
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Mar 19, 2015Flashes of contingent weirdness appear throughout the album, and the lyrics remain reliably sardonic, but the band surrenders too often to a prefab pop-rock idiom that isn't entirely their own.
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Mar 17, 2015Strangers is a fundamentally passable album.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 84
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Mixed: 13 out of 84
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Negative: 2 out of 84
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Mar 19, 2015
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Mar 23, 2015
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Mar 19, 2015