strangers to ourselves

MUSIC VIDEO: Modest Mouse – “Lampshades On Fire”

Last week, Modest Mouse released their sixth studio album, Strangers To Ourselves. The album’s lead single, a track titled “Lampshades On Fire,” has a new music video, and it’s available to stream below. The video for “Lampshades On Fire” is as chaotic as the title would suggest. It consists of a series of video clips […]

Modest Mouse Stream Long-Awaited New Album, ‘Strangers To Ourselves’

For the first time in eight years (I was just getting my drivers license eight years ago — where were you?) Modest Mouse has released a new LP for the world to consume and criticize at their first convenience. The band dropped an exclusive stream of the record earlier this week via Spotify — you […]

REVIEW: Modest Mouse – ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

Artist: Modest Mouse Title: Strangers to Ourselves Label: Epic Records Genre: Alternative, Indie At this point in the career of Modest Mouse, any new music comes with some unfortunate but fair expectations. It’s nearly impossible to listen to a new album and not think about past work. But that doesn’t mean we can’t welcome change […]

Modest Mouse Share “Of Course We Know”

Modest Mouse will be dropping their sixth studio album later this month, titled Strangers To Ourselves. So far we have heard a few of the singles off the album, and now the group has revealed yet another new track. The song is titled “Of Course We Know,” and it’s available to listen to below. Digital […]

Modest Mouse Announce North American & European Tour

In celebration of the highly-anticipated release of Strangers To Ourselves, the band’s followup to We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank from 2007, Modest Mouse will be heading out an an extensive spring/summer tour throughout North America and Europe. The band will be making appearances at numerous music festivals and will also be playing […]

Modest Mouse Share New Track, “The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box”

Modest Mouse are pumping out songs left and right in anticipation of their new album Strangers To Ourselves, with “Lampshades On Fire,” “Coyotes,” and “The Best Room” already out for streaming. Today, the band has shared yet another song with the music world, and for me, this could be my favorite one I have heard […]

Today, In Modest Mouse News: New Song, New Release Date, Tracklist Reveal

Modest Mouse have led off new release day with a few bits of big news themselves, including a bevy of good, a little bad, and just the slightest bit of unease. The biggest news is the new single. “The Best Room” is the third we’ve heard off the impending Strangers to Ourselves, following We Were Dead-head “Lampshades […]

Modest Mouse Offer Scenic Video For Low-Key Single, “Coyotes”

On the eve of No Cities To Love‘s much-lauded release, Modest Mouse has taken another step toward ending an album dry spell less than two years shorter than Sleater-Kinney’s own. The second single off new full-length Strangers To Ourselves – as melancholy a song as you’d expect on an album with that title – has debuted. Premiering on Interstate-8 […]

Modest Mouse Reveal Album Artwork For ‘Strangers To Ourselves’

In case you’ve been living under a rock these past few days, Modest Mouse are alive and they are doing things. Over the course of the last six days, the beloved indie outfit has been revealing bits and pieces of information regarding their impending record, Strangers To Ourselves, which is a followup to their last […]

Modest Mouse Share First New Single in Eight Years, “Lampshades on Fire”

The title says it all. All in one short day, we were teased with a cryptic message from Modest Mouse on Instagram and even an official announcement from the band regarding new music, as they announced their highly anticipated full-length, Strangers to Ourselves Well, this morning, we were gifted a new track from the album, […]

Modest Mouse To Release New Album ‘Strangers To Ourselves’ In March 2015

With the recent stirrings of a new Modest Mouse single, “Lampshades On Fire,” the lingering hopes and buzz of a new Modest Mouse album in 2015 began to rise yet again. With long-awaited days, weeks, months, and years from Modest Mouse fans, the band has finally announced their newest album, Strangers To Ourselves, and it […]