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SUMMARY:Modest Mouse
DESCRIPTION:There's a theory in physics — the idea that past\, present\, 
 and future all exist simultaneously\, and that the passage of time itsel
 f is an illusion. It's also the best way to understand An Eraser and a M
 aze\, because you can hear every era of Modest Mouse coexisting at once 
 on it. Past\, present and future — none of it retreading the past\, just
  existing simultaneously. That's probably no surprise given the creative
  ether from which it all springs. Isaac Brock's process is beyond anyone
 's grasp\, including his own. He just gets out of the way. As he puts it
 \, "The awake part of my brain isn't even really involved. There's an en
 tire different factory in my head that does the good shit. " The result 
 is a record that feels familiar and alien at once — warm\, yet cold. Sur
 prising\, even confounding at points\, in the best possible way. Sonical
 ly\, the album spans the full arc of the band's catalog. "Absolutely Nec
 essary Never" takes the DNA of "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" — and happens
  to be a new Modest Mouse classic. "Speak 'N Spell (Or Not)" feels like 
 a hybrid between early-era guitar work and the bombastic choruses of Goo
 d News for People Who Love Bad News. The stripped-down moments hit harde
 st: "Dogbed in Heaven/Give It a Skeleton" wouldn't have felt out of plac
 e on Ugly Casanova's Sharpen Your Teeth\, while "Remember Yourself" find
 s Brock singing to a quiet fingerpicked guitar\, raw and unguarded. "Thi
 rd Side of the Moon\, " meanwhile\, is cold and stark\, warm and human —
  somehow both at once. The players themselves hail from various eras of 
 the band. Late founding drummer Jeremiah Green appears in a sample\, his
  presence haunting the record throughout — and not just sonically. Havin
 g lost several close people over the past few years\, Brock had been thi
 nking about mortality. The record's liner notes detail a dedication to G
 reen alongside others: Rob Laakso\, Sam Jayne\, Scott Kane\, Sean Foley.
  As Brock said following Green's death in late 2022\, "I imagine there's
  going to be a ghost in the house for quite a while. " Modest Mouse bega
 n working on this collection immediately following The Golden Casket. Wh
 ere that record was an attempt to manufacture post-pandemic silver linin
 gs\, An Eraser and a Maze takes a different approach. "For this one\, I 
 just tried being real honest with myself\, " Brock says. He hopes those 
 who've experienced loss find something useful here — not something "glib
 ly optimistic\, " nor "this is my darkest hour. " Something harder to na
 me. An Eraser and a Maze might mark the end of a timeline\, or the start
  of one\, or maybe both at once. It feels familiar and warm\, yet wholly
  alien in a cold world. And in a past\, present\, and future tha\n\nTick
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LOCATION:Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater\, 310 W Willie Nels
 on Blvd\, Austin\, TX 78701
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/e66e0f29-6279-4f0b-87e4-b34b23adb4c
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