Modest Mouse, Brand New
Recommended
This event is in the past
Sun., July 31, 7:30 p.m. 2016
Moda Center
Lloyd District (Portland)
$39.50 - $54.50
Good News for People Who Love Bad News was the first CD I ever bought, after bringing my crumpled-up collection of ones and fives I’d saved inside my coconut-carved monkey bank to Tower Records. It was 2005 and “Float On” and “Ocean Breathes Salty” were probably played twice an hour on the local alt-rock station, yet my dad still let me play it the whole drive home. That CD led me to The Moon & Antarctica, The Lonesome Crowded West, and This Is a Long Drive...—a well of songs from an era where Isaac Brock could not write a bad song, whether they were sinister stories of self-destructive modern cowboys stuck in a 19th century mindset, or existential reflections made while night swimming. Brock and drummer Jeremiah Green’s signature chaotic bursts of energy balanced with soft, pretty jams were perhaps the peak of maximalist guitar-pop. CAMERON CROWELL