Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
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Album Review
Release date: 20 March 2007
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Before you get too excited about Johnny Marr joining Modest Mouse, remember that his last album was not ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ but The Healers’ wretched ‘Boomslang’, while Modest Mouse have been making quirky indie tunes for aeons that you’d be hard pushed to hum. Thankfully, ‘We Were Dead…’ – all buffeting sea-shanties and squiffy art-rock anthems – is a spirited...
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- March Into the Sea
- Dashboard
- Fire It Up
- Florida
- Parting of the Sensory
- Missed the Boat
- We've Got Everything
- Fly Trapped in a Jar
- Education
- Little Motel
- Steam Engenius
- Spitting Venom
- People as Places as People
- Invisible
- We've Got Everything
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