In 1993, the American indie rock band known as Modest Mouse formed within their home town of Issaquah, Washington. First began by singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy, the trio released their debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About in 1996. One year later, in 1997, the band released their album Lonesome Crowded West which served as the band’s breakthrough. Lonesome Crowded West earned the band a cult following and is now popularly considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-1990’s indie rock.
Throughout the years following their initial successes, Modest Mouse gained and lost many talented band members – but they never lost sense of who they are as a musical entity. For their Magical Mystery Tour, Voyce will be laying down the tracks that highlight every last one of their amazing albums in hopes that you, our listeners, will appreciate what they’ve done for the music genre we all know and love today – Indie Rock.
FUN FACT: Modest Mouse’s name derives from a passage in the Virginia Woolf story, “The Mark on the Wall,” which reads, “”I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.”
Modest Mouse Discography:
- This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
- Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
- Building Nothing Out of Something (2000)
- The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
- Sad Sappy Sucker (2001)
- Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
- No One’s First and You’re Next (2009)