Good News For People Who Love Bad News is Modest Mouse's fourth album and their most commercially successful. According to more knowledgeable music critics than me, their earlier stuff is better, but seeing as I have not heard their earlier stuff I can really comment on that I just know that I like this album.
Apparently they also sound like the Pixies, which is true of very many indie acts. While many bands adopt the Pixies' quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD-quiet dynamic as appropriated by Nirvana, Modest Mouse, however, sound more like the weirder elements of the Pixies catalogue. Singer Isaac Brock goes has more of a yelp than Black Francis' scream, but they both have the same slightly off-meter delivery.
The band has the fairly standard two guitars, bass and drum set-up, but Brock also adds banjo and ukulele while guitarist Dann Gallucci adds keyboard, timpani, mellotron and glockenspiel. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band appear on three of the tracks. There is a pretty varied sound from ballads to rockier numbers.
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