Modest MouseBest Modest Mouse Albums Ranked

The Lonesome Crowded West

pastemagazine

10

“The PNW band’s second album is a masterpiece of intentional instability. Songs don’t just build, they unravel; hooks emerge only after being dragged through miles of broken asphalt and Isaac Brock’s throat-shredding howls.”

The Golden Casket

nme

10

“the spiritual sequel to their breakout hit”

The Moon & Antarctica

pitchfork

9.8

“In some ways this review has a foregone conclusion. When Brent DiCrescenzo reviewed *The Moon & Antarctica* for Pitchfork in 2000, he awarded it a 9.8, nearly the highest rating possible and one that I second with only quibbling reservations. Four years later, Epic Records has re-released the album in an "expanded and remastered edition" that begs the question: Why? More ambitious in sound, if no”

Building Nothing Out of Something

pitchfork

8.9

“It's just a matter of time until a West Coast punk band with the name of "The ______s" releases an album called *For Nick Cater*. It's just a matter of time until an indie rock collective devoted to resurrecting the sound of Led Zeppelin arises in Olympia, Athens or D.C. It's just a matter of time before Superchunk releases an album with "keyboards and loops and stuff." It's only a matter of time ”

Night on the Sun - EP

pitchfork

8.7

“It seems every decade or so since the Velvet Underground, a band comes along that at once has one foot firmly rooted in tradition, and simultaneously quietly pushes "guitar-based" rock a little further into the future. I'm thinking of bands like Television and Pavement, though there are obviously thousands of bands one could make a case for. The thing they have in common is that they're workhorses”

This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

pitchfork

8.5

“The first two full-lengths by Modest Mouse, out of print for many years, have been reissued by Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace imprint. Heard now, they are a reminder of the group's insular, visionary oddness.”