Modest Mouse An Eraser and a Maze 180g 2LP

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A physics theory says past, present, and future coexist—and that's the best lens for An Eraser and a Maze, which feels like every era of Modest Mouse happening at once. Guided by Isaac Brock's instinct-first process, the album is both familiar and alien, warm and cold. It stretches across the band's sonic history, from propulsive classics to stripped, raw moments, while carrying an undercurrent of mortality and loss that refuses easy optimism.

Though it's connected intrinsically to grief and offers some of the most emotionally poignant songs of the band's career, An Eraser and a Maze isn't centered on death and mortality alone. Instead, Brock and his collaborators use these songs as a means of processing the array of feelings that come as life cycles on, following their creative muse through the ridiculous, the weighty, the sublime, and the banal. In that way, An Eraser and a Maze is connected to the same language of expression that Brock has been cultivating since Modest Mouse began, just with a more clearly defined articulation than before, and a wider range of feelings (devastation, defeat, frustration, gratitude, and acceptance, to name a few) than ever before.