Strangers to Ourselves by Modest Mouse

Strangers to Ourselves, Modest Mouse's sixth studio album, came out on Epic on March 17, 2015, two weeks later than first announced, and it ended the longest wait of their career: eight years had passed since We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. It was also their first without founding bassist Eric Judy, leaving Isaac Brock to steer a bigger, shifting crew that now included Tom Peloso, Jim Fairchild, Russell Higbee and Lisa Molinaro alongside drummer Jeremiah Green.

The band cut enough material in those sessions for two albums, and Joe Zook, who had mixed its predecessor, mixed this one too. The songs lurch and wobble in classic Modest Mouse fashion, with Brock's yelp and twitchy guitar leading the way; "Lampshades on Fire" is a gleefully jittery singalong, and "The Ground Walks With Time in a Box" struts on a crooked groove. The Golden Casket followed six years later.

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