“Heart Cooks Brain” by Modest Mouse

"Heart Cooks Brain" sits on The Lonesome Crowded West, the second album from Modest Mouse, released by Up Records in November 1997 behind a cover showing the two towers of The Westin Seattle. It's the track where the record's hip-hop streak comes up for air: there's turntablism in the mix, an odd and welcome guest on an album that swings from pummeling thrashers to hushed, moody acoustic stretches, with grunge in its bloodstream too.

Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green and Eric Judy share the writing credit. Calvin Johnson produced, with Brock and engineer Scott Swayze co-producing. The album went on to turn up on several lists of the best records of the '90s.

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