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The Moon & Antarctica (Bonus Tracks),Modest Mouse

- The Moon & Antarctica (Bonus Tracks)
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Modest Mouse
Released 2004

3rd Planet
03:59
39,215 plays

Gravity Rides Everything
04:20
32,011 plays

Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
03:41
24,820 plays

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- 1
- 3rd Planet
- 03:59
- 39,215 plays

- 2
- Gravity Rides Everything
- 04:20
- 32,011 plays

- 3
- Dark Center Of The Universe
- 05:03
- 22,782 plays

- 4
- Perfect Disguise
- 02:41
- 20,249 plays

- 5
- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
- 03:41
- 24,820 plays

- 6
- A Different City
- 03:07
- 19,703 plays

- 7
- The Cold Part
- 05:01
- 19,143 plays

- 8
- Alone Down There
- 02:22
- 18,385 plays

- 9
- The Stars Are Projectors
- 08:46
- 18,208 plays

- 10
- Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
- 01:45
- 16,914 plays

- 11
- Paper Thin Walls
- 03:01
- 23,209 plays

- 12
- I Came As A Rat
- 03:47
- 19,199 plays

- 13
- Lives
- 03:18
- 17,109 plays

- 14
- Life Like Weeds
- 06:31
- 16,563 plays

- 15
- What People Are Made Of
- 02:14
- 15,375 plays

- 16
- 3rd Planet (BBC Radio 1 Session Radio Edit)
- 04:01
- 2,300 plays

- 17
- Perfect Disguise (BBC Radio 1 Session Version)
- 03:00
- 2,375 plays

- 18
- Custom Concern (Instrumental BBC Radio 1 Session Version)
- 01:59
- 2,176 plays

- 19
- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes (BBC Radio 1 Session Version)
- 03:08
- 2,290 plays

album review

Modest Mouse's Epic debut, The Moon & Antarctica, finds them strangely subdued, focusing on mortality as well as the moody, acoustic side of their music and downplaying the edgy, spastic rock that helped make them indie stars. Not that their first major-label release sounds like a sellout -- actually, the slight sheen of Brian Deck's production enhances the album's introspective tone -- but occasionally The Moon & Antarctica's melancholy becomes ponderous. Unfortunately, the album's middle stretch contains three such songs, "The Cold Part," "Alone Down There," and "The Stars Are Projectors," which tend to blur together into one 17-minute-long piece that bogs down the album's momentum. Individually, each of these songs is sweeping and haunting in its own right, but grouping them together blunts their impact. However, this trilogy does provide a sharp contrast to, as well as a bridge across, The Moon & Antarctica's more vibrant beginning and end. Though it explores death and the afterlife, The Moon & Antarctica's liveliest moments are its most effective. "3rd Planet"'s simple, ramshackle melody and strange, moving lyrics ("Your heart felt good"), the elastic guitars on "Gravity Rides Everything," and the angular, jumpy "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" and "A Different City" get the album off to a strong start, while the fresh, unaffected "Wild Packs of Family Dogs," "Paper Thin Walls," and "Lives" bring it to an atmospheric, affecting peak before "What People Are Made Of" closes the album with a climactic burst of noise. Their most cohesive collection of songs to date, The Moon & Antarctica is an impressive, if flawed, map of Modest Mouse's ambitions and fears. [The 2004 reissue has been remastered and features BBC performances of "3rd Planet," "Perfect Disguise," and "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes," as well as an instrumental version of "Custom Concern" from This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About.] ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide