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Moon & Antarctica [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 2000 06 13
Label: Epic
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Modest Mouse's Epic debut, The Moon & Antarctica, finds them strangely subdued, focusing on mortality as well as the moody, acoustic side of their music and downplaying the edgy, spastic rock that helped make them indie stars. Not that their first major-label release sounds like a sellout -- actually, the slight sheen of Brian Deck's production enhances the album's introspective tone -- but occasionally The Moon & Antarctica's melancholy becomes ponderous. Unfortunately, the album's middle stretch contains three such songs, "The Cold Part," "Alone Down There," and "The Stars Are Projectors," which tend to blur together into one 17-minute-long piece that bogs down the album's momentum. Individually, each of these songs is sweeping and haunting in its own right, but grouping them together blunts their impact. However, this trilogy does provide a sharp contrast to, as well as a bridge across, The Moon & Antarctica's more vibrant beginning and end. Though it explores death and the afterlife, The Moon & Antarctica's liveliest moments are its most effective. "3rd Planet"'s simple, ramshackle melody and strange, moving lyrics ("Your heart felt good"), the elastic guitars on "Gravity Rides Everything," and the angular, jumpy "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" and "A Different City" get the album off to a strong start, while the fresh, unaffected "Wild Packs of Family Dogs," "Paper Thin Walls," and "Lives" bring it to an atmospheric, affecting peak before "What People Are Made Of" closes the album with a climactic burst of noise. Their most cohesive collection of songs to date, The Moon & Antarctica is an impressive, if flawed, map of Modest Mouse's ambitions and fears. [The 2004 reissue has been remastered and features BBC performances of "3rd Planet," "Perfect Disguise," and "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes," as well as an instrumental version of "Custom Concern" from This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About.] Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
13rd PlanetModest Mouse, Brock3:59
2Gravity Rides EverythingBrock, Modest Mouse4:19
3Dark Center of the UniverseModest Mouse, Brock5:03
4Perfect DisguiseBrock, Modest Mouse2:41
5Tiny Cities Made of AshesModest Mouse, Brock3:41
6Different CityModest Mouse, Brock3:07
7Cold PartBrock, Modest Mouse5:00
8Alone Down ThereBrock, Modest Mouse2:22
9Stars Are ProjectorsBrock, Modest Mouse8:46
10Wild Packs of Family DogsModest Mouse, Brock1:46
11Paper Thin WallsBrock, Modest Mouse3:02
12I Came as a RatModest Mouse, Brock3:48
13LivesModest Mouse, Brock3:18
14Life Like WeedsModest Mouse, Brock6:30
15What People Are Made OfBrock, Modest Mouse2:25
163rd Planet [Radio Edit][#][*][Version]Brock, Modest Mouse4:00
17Perfect Disguise [BBC Radio 1 Session Version][#][*]Brock, Modest Mouse2:59
18Custom Concern [BBC Radio 1 Session Version][#][*][Instrumental]Brock, Modest Mouse1:59
19Tiny Cities Made of Ashes [BBC Radio 1 Session Version][#][*]Brock, Modest Mouse3:08







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