Kaplan’s vocals have gotten shittier (I think he should let Georgia and James handle all the singing.) The jams sound like Sonic Youth without all that inconvenient rocking the fuck out. I like ’90s YLT, but the recent stuff just sounds like they’ve been mining that sound further and further with diminishing returns. I only listened twice, but that was because there was nothing going on that compelled me to play again. The album with Johnny Marr was terrible, I thought. Yeah, I liked the Modest Mouse stuff from the early ’00s, especially The Moon and the Antarctica. I do wonder if I’ve heard too much music, too much alt/indie/punk-type sounds, so this just sounds old-hat to me.įeel free to let me know if I’m missing something, if I’m full of crap. It’s like they have hooks, but no melodies.Īnyway, they’re not evil and I don’t hate their fans. Something unfinished about this music in an unappealing way. No wonder I never could hear the supposed grandeur of that album.
Reminds me of my dubbed copy of The Joshua Tree, which was a copy of a copy of a copy. It’s not lo-fi, but it sounds like a well-made album then dubbed onto a bad Maxell or TDK cassette. In theory, I should like this band: They sound like a cross between Revolver, Bowie/Eno, Prince, and Jon Brion. It’s not bad music, but I have no desire to listen to most of it again. I’m listening to the online stream of Spoon‘s new album, Transference.
