Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
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Album Review
Release date: 13 June 2000
The Moon & Antarctica
Frustrating. Stubborn. But always charming.
If discordance is the refuge of the terminally obstinate, then Modest Mouse are its reluctantly tender conduit; a trio of lovesick Statesiders heaven-bent on contradicting themselves at every turn. It's been a long and twisted road for Seattle's most difficult sons; a trip that has already begot two albums, each bristling with vividly elemental imagery and almost-realised ideas....
- Jul 14, 2000
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- 3rd Planet
- Gravity Rides Everything
- Dark Center of the Universe
- Perfect Disguise
- Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
- A Different City
- The Cold Part
- Alone Down There
- The Stars Are Projectors
- Wild Packs of Family Dogs
- Paper Thin Walls
- I Came as a Rat
- Lives
- Life Like Weeds
- What People Are Made Of
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Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica: Wikipedia Album Entry
The Moon & Antarctica is the third full-length album by rock band Modest Mouse, first released by Epic Records on June 13, 2000. The album was the band's first release on a major label and was released on both compact disc and vinyl LP. The album peaked at number 120 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart.
It was praised by critics and fans alike for its in-depth discussion of dense subject matter, as well as frontman Isaac Brock's clever and introspective lyrics. The Moon & Antarctica was also hailed for being an expansion of the band's unique sound. This was due both to the band's new major label tools as well as the production of Brian Deck.
Pitchfork Media ranked the album as the third best album of 2000, trailing Kid A by Radiohead and Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós. In February 2005, Pitchfork named it the seventh best album of the years 2000 through 2004. The Moon & Antarctica was voted the sixth best album of the decade by Pitchfork in October 2009. In 2008, betterPropaganda ranked the album number 23 in their Top 100 Albums of the 2000s. The album ranked number 37 in Entertainment Weekly's "The New Classics," a list of the hundred best albums form 1983-2008. In March 2009, the album was certified gold by the RIAA in the United States.
The song "Gravity Rides Everything" is featured in the film "Accepted" (2006).
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