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During this time, Modest Mouse also recorded what would have been its first album, Sad Sappy Sucker, but constant delays caused the album to be shelved and forgotten. bluesman Seasick Steve) under Sub Pop records at Moon Studios in Olympia, Washington. This was followed by a single, " Broke", recorded by Steve Wold (a.k.a. In 1994, at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios, Modest Mouse recorded its first EP, Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?, which was released by K Records. Brock says he made a point of the band being from Issaquah to avoid association with the music scenes of Seattle or Olympia and to keep with the band's suburban lyrical themes. Brock and Judy later discovered drummer Jeremiah Green, who also resided near Seattle, at a heavy metal show, at which point they decided to make music together. When Isaac Brock was a teenager, he was employed at a local family video store just outside Seattle, where he met bassist Eric Judy. History Formation and early years: 1992–1999
Freshly signed to a major label, Epic Records released the critically praised The Moon & Antarctica in 2000, a darker, more subdued affair than the band's angular-sounding past. Modest Mouse's career trajectory has only gone upward since then. It would be their sophomore record, the raucous and wildly eclectic Lonesome Crowded West, that established Modest Mouse as an unreckonable force. group formed in 1993 rehearsing in a makeshift practice space affectionately named "The Shed." Calvin Johnson, owner of K Records and former Beat Happening frontman, recorded the band's first single that attracted the attention of Up Records (home to another indie-rock stalwart, Built to Spill). Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined the band in 2006 to record and to co-write the new album and has now become a full-fledged member.
The latest incarnation of Modest Mouse includes vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy and drummer Jeremiah Green, all original band members. Hear Modest Mouse recorded in concert from Philadelphia's Electric Factory, a co-production with WXPN, on May 3. Modest Mouse frontman and songwriter Isaac Brock describes his band's sixth album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, as a "nautical balalaika carnival romp." Setting aside references to the obscure Russian three-stringed instrument, the band's sixth studio album is yet another success - pirates, clowns and all.