Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica (10th Anniversary Edition )
List Price:
Our Price: $4.80
You Save: $4.19 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: Modest MouseEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-08-10
Music Label: Epic
Soundtracks:
- 3rd Planet
- Gravity Rides Everything
- Dark Center Of The Universe
- Perfect Disguise
- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
- A Different City
- The Cold Part
- Alone Down There
- The Stars Are Projectors
- Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
- Paper Thin Walls
- I Came As A Rat
- Lives
- Life Like Weeds
- What People Are Made Of
Music reviews of Moon & Antarctica (10th Anniversary Edition )
Music Review: The shimmering "Moon"
Rating: 5 Stars
Look over the glaciers at the cold night sky, sparkling with stars and with a huge full moon overhead. Then imagine the aurora rising up and distorting the night with its raw beauty. That's Modest Mouse's "Moon and Antarctica," the 2000 album that took them from a merely talented indie band into full-blown brilliance -- exquisite, strange, and chilly.
The distant, rat-a-tatting rock of "3rd Planet" kicks off the enticingly surreal album with lines like "The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go/straight long enough you'll end up where you were." This meditation on the universe stretches over the album, with the warm, mildly achy "Gravity Rides Everything," which sounds like the Beatles got slightly depressed.
Things grow darker with the warped, snarling "Different City" and saddening "Perfect Disguise," finally settling on even ground with the folkish "Lives," and the sweeping, magnificent soundscapes of a three-song cycle starting with "Cold Part." Unfortunately, the album is then saddled with "Life Like Weeds" (pretty, but it feels tacked on) and the jarring, raw "What People Are Made Of," which barely seems like the same band.
"Moon and Antarctica" is the sort of music that is like looking through a telescope with an iridescent lens. You not only look at things, but they seem to change in an appealing way. The extra tracks are something of a disappointment, however -- they don't have the dark sparkle of the original album, and there aren't very many extras.
The lyrics have the quality of space poetry, very offbeat and not quite connected with the everyday world. They're a little frightening with their exploration of anger, loneliness and misery, but also quite beautiful in their brushes by the very edges of the universe (try listening to this while looking at fractal pictures), and the evocative wording ("And right after I die the dogs start floating up towards the glowing sky").
Fortunately, Modest Mouse doesn't include just the usual guitar-bass-drums riffs. That would be doing an injustice to the music they put out. Forming parts of the smooth music are violins, electronic stretches and a sort of unique sound that brings to mind "Pink Floyd doing folk." Isaac Brock's thin voice always has a sort of distant quality. It's not really a GOOD voice, but like the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, it's an integral part of the music itself.
Edgy, beautiful, melancholy, dark and spacey, "The Moon and Antarctica" is deserving of loads of listens -- and ten years hasn't dulled its beauty.
Description of Moon & Antarctica (10th Anniversary Edition )
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.With their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world. Rarely giving off the cage-jarring thickness of guitar rock, Moon's 15 tunes are shaped around vignettes of a disheveled head figuring out the rambling disconnections of postmodern society. Guitars wobble, Brock wails on vocals, and his band mates--Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green--help take each song away from any predictable formula and toward wherever they seem to want to go. This is a band as profoundly touched by suburbia as was writer Harold Brodkey. You can imagine Brock, Green, and Judy lying on wide-open lawns, philosophizing about the shape of the universe and coming up with lyric moments like this (sung to folky, spare acoustic guitar): "A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard and as my own dog ran away I didn't say much of anything at all / A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard as my little sister played; the dogs took her away, and I guess she was eaten up, okay." Replays of American Beauty, anyone? --Andrew Bartlett
Alternative Rock CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Alternative Rock CDs
Bouncing Souls - Maniacal LaughterRelease date: 1996-01-26; Music CD
Best price: $30.00
Blondie - Parallel LinesRelease date: 1994-07-29; Music CD
Best price: $149.98
Doors - L.A. WomanRelease date: 1993-04-09; Music CD
Best price: $99.99
Amon Duul - Phallus DeiRelease date: 1997-04-08; Music CD
Price in other shops:
Tangerine Dream - MelroseRelease date: 1990-10-02; Music CD
Best price: $74.98
Tangerine Dream - Private Music of Tangerine DreamRelease date: 1992-11-10; Music CD
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
![Ska Explosion [VHS] Image](/images/Ska-Explosion-VHS-6303381014-X.jpg){kind=small}
Ska Explosion [VHS]Cleopatra; Release date: 1995-02-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
![Little Earthquakes [VHS] Image](/images/Little-Earthquakes-VHS-6302488664-X.jpg){kind=small}
Little Earthquakes [VHS]Atlantic / Wea; Release date: 1992-11-10; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.50
Price in other shops:
Exileby Geoffrey Oryema
Music CD
Best price: $4.95
![Louder Than Live [VHS] Image](/images/Louder-Than-Live-VHS-6301627865-X.jpg){kind=small}
Soundgarden - Louder Than Live [VHS]A&M Video; Release date: 1991-07-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $192.68
Similar CDs
Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your TeethRelease date: 2002-05-21; Music CD
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
The Strokes - Room on FireRelease date: 2003-10-28; Music CD
Best price: $4.44
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy SuckerRelease date: 2010-11-02; Music CD
Best price: $12.60
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - Everywhere & His Nasty Parlour TricksRelease date: 2001-09-25; Music CD
Best price: $2.95
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of SomethingRelease date: 2000-01-18; Music CD
Best price: $8.92
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - No One's First, and You're NextRelease date: 2009-08-04; Music CD
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think AboutRelease date: 1996-04-09; Music CD
Best price: $8.29
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even SankBaker & Taylor; Release date: 2007-03-20; Music CD
Best price: $4.73
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded WestRelease date: 1997-11-18; Music CD
Best price: $8.34
Price in other shops:
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad NewsRelease date: 2004-04-06; Music CD
Best price: $4.58
Price in other shops: