| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00828768613924 | | Release Date: 3/20/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204108596 | | Item#: M3GP69 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 1742 | Format:  CD |
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| The first studio album since 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, is also the first album with former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and marks the return of original Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green has returned for this album.
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Notes & Personnel Info | | Modest Mouse: Eric Judy, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Johnny Marr , Joe Plummer, Tom Peloso. | | Recording information: Sweet Tea, Oxford, MS. | | Though the album title sounds like it was borrowed from the avant-weirdos Liars, WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVEN SANK finds quintessential indie-rockers Modest Mouse charting a course down the stylistic middle. They retain enough of their trademark quirkiness to keep longtime fans from feeling alienated, but they simultaneously put popwise songcraft to the fore. The dance-rock of "Dashboard" sounds like it could be a Killers outtake, and several tracks find the band engaging in the kind of post-Pavement mid-fi style that first endeared them to the slacker masses. | | Isaac Brock sounds properly unhinged on "Florida," "Invisible," and "Steam Engenius," as the band pushes into overdrive, but there's also a brace of low-key, acoustic-based tunes that provide a perfect contrast. The Mouse is bolstered by some high-powered guests as well: Smiths guitar legend Johnny Marr adds a bit of six-string support, and Shins singer James Mercer contributes some backing vocals. Nevertheless, the fraying-but-fierce group dynamic that's always been at the heart of the MM sound prevails throughout. |
Producer: Dennis Herring |
Engineer: Clay Jones; Joe Zook |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - CD By: Michael Fraiman - Cinema Blend CD Reviews Published on: 3/19/2007 11:13 PM | | Modest Mouse's latest album with a lengthy title, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, is a wild and nautical journey into the heart of the indie rock scene. The band stands as one of the least conventional of its kind out there; its music is hard to swallow, and this has never been more apparent than on We Were Dead, its angriest release to date. ...read the full review |
| Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - CD By: Dave Powers - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/22/2007 9:47 AM | | A beefier, more mainstream-rock-radio-friendly Modest Mouse. There are still plenty of their signature bendy guitars, twisted blues progressions, ragged hoedown stomps, and Isaac Brocks dynamic vocal shifts from introspective to spazzy. But the cleaner and fuller production makes for a slicker, safer sound than usual. ...read the full review |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/20/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 686139 | | Label : Epic (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 62m : 28s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828768613924 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.78)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's louder and somewhat less twisty than the group's indie output..."Spin (p.85)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Brock's pop instincts have never been more refined....It's a road-trip sing-along album not for vacationers, but for escapees." Entertainment Weekly (p.58)
- "Brock has never sounded more charismatic, or chameleonlike, as he alternately croons, spits, and bronchially howls through lyrics..." -- Grade: A- Q (p.128)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Marr dazzles throughout....Modest Mouse show no signs of sinking into the quagmire of mainstream orthodoxy...A fantastic voyage." Alternative Press (p.145)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Brock and his bandmates have filled the album with the kind of guitar-heavy dirges and poignant ballads that long ago turned them into blue-collar indie-rock gods." Q (Magazine)
(p.87)
- Ranked #11 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[L]oosely based around a nautical theme, it conjures up visions of a grunge Talking Heads..." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.106)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Isaac Brock's vocal histrionics and Marr's itchy guitar scrawl provide a backdrop for cryptic, neurotic lyrical intrigue, but they're also capable of a cute romantic ballad..." |
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| | Bio | | Combining the influences of new wave, post-punk, and lo-fi, Washington's Modest Mouse spent the second half of the 1990s becoming one of the most renowned indie-rock bands in America. Though often tagged an emo group, Modest Mouse transcends sub-genre categorization. Their moody arrangements, inventive lyrics, and distinctly modern variation on the power-trio format set them apart even as the band's sound proved influential to subsequent hordes of emo bands and indie rockers. They're one of the few indie groups to have successfully weathered the jump to a major label with both their sound and audience intact.
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