“3rd Planet” by Modest Mouse

"3rd Planet" comes off The Moon & Antarctica, the third Modest Mouse album and their first for a major label, released on Epic on June 13, 2000. Isaac Brock wrote the words and sings them, and he built the music with drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy, with Ben Blankenship adding lap steel to the haze.

Brian Deck produced and mixed it. He and Brock had first hit it off after landing on the same bill in Detroit, lost touch, then found each other again a few years on, and with Epic's budget behind them Deck helped the band spread out into a bigger, stranger sound while keeping Brock's inward-looking lyrics front and center. Critics heard the growth, and NME later ranked the album among the greatest records ever made.

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