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Modest Mouse

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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Release Date: 02/04/2007

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Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Review by Alex Denney

A Beckettian character with a mile-wide misanthropic streak, I always thought of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock as the kind of guy who gets kicks out of imagining his own funeral. Brock possesses such a powerfully self-defeating intellect it’s a wonder he ever opens his mouth to speak at all, except, one suspects, for an overriding fear that one day the earth will come and swallow him up and leave nobody left to mourn his untimely demise...»

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  • 8/10 by LostChimera




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