"I don't remember paying to see Boyzone", the lovely antipodean character I call "My Lady" turned to me and said at one point during this gig. For what could fairly be called 70% of the music I should have to agree. Modest Mouse, to me, still embody this raw, angry and rough yet intelligent and talented persona that characterised their music until the new millennium.
   Between three members they built a uniquely structured noise, indie rock at its best. They had something special, something different, not just in Isaac Brock's brickdust vocals, at times powersander raw and at others bouncy and youthful, and his fitfully sloppy (yet also surprisingly delicate) guitar style; but also in Eric Judy's roundly rumbling basslines and Jeremiah Green's huge drum attacks. It worked so well for three albums that after their sound took on its first major evolution in 2000 with The Moon and Antarctica, a huge expansion in lyrical and aesthetic qualities, it appeared Isaac had hit a wall. After you've conquered the riddles of the universe in an album, pouring out all of your knowledge in the process, where do you go?"

-Our man Tim Howard again..

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