An Eraser and a Maze

Label: Glacial Pace Recordings, Inc
Release Date: 5th June

They really don't release records too often do they, Modest Mouse? With that the pressure remains super high from loyal fans for Big Isaac Brock to touch the high bars of The Lonesome Crowd West and The Moon & Antartica. Having found plenty to enjoy on 2021's The Golden Casket and with the current teaser tracks for their upcoming release 5 years later, they're not too far off grazing their stupidly high standard.

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.