Modest Mouse, "Fire It Up" I really need to go back and re-evaluate this record. Given how much I like the previous three albums from them (and the various EPs), it wasn't really fair to kind of dismiss the record after...
Modest Mouse, "3rd Planet" The opening of The Moon & Antarctica, "3rd Planet" sets the expectation that Modest Mouse had moved beyond the sound of The Lonesome Crowded West to a little bit more of a melodic place. While this is...
Modest Mouse, "So Much Beauty In Dirt" This comes from the 2001 EP Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks, which in turn pulls a few songs from an earlier EP and adds a few new ones. This is from the peak Modest Mouse...
Hepcat, "Marcus Garvey" Y'all, it's ska weather right now in Seattle. It's still sunny, but not oppressive, and some breezy tunes to go with it is just perfect. I've had Hepcat on while making dinner...
De La Soul, "Rap De Rap Show" There's a concept of a "difficult second album", which is mostly just a farm for confirmation bias, but hell, let's talk about De La Soul's difficult second album....
