Modest Mouse Back to the Middle ( Live Performance), Vevo

Modest Mouse Back to the Middle. An exclusive live performance for Vevo. Any accounting of indie rocks history is incomplete without assessing the sizable contribution of Modest Mouse. 1996 s Dramamine, built on a circular, 12note guitar line and singer Isaac Brocks haggard shouts, announced the band s approach: deeply melodic, thoughtfully experimental, sonically jagged, and a bit manic. Before the turn of the century and well into the 10s, high school teens with impeccable music taste were evangelizing Brock s outfit. 2000s The Moon Antarctica still induces waves of melancholic nostalgia for this bunch; Float On and Dashboard from 2004s Good News For People Who Like Bad News and 2007s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank respectively, have been staples on indie playlists since their release. As its listeners have matured, so too has the band s musicmaking process. Once frantic in their output, Modest Mouse took half decadeplus pauses before putting out their last two albums the