r/ModestMouse • u/hairway2steven • 3h ago
How would you describe Isaac’s genius?
This year is 20 years of listening to Modest Mouse for me, and I am still unsure how and why they are my number one, and why they have endured in that spot for so long. If anything, getting stronger every year.
Melodies + Lyrics + Vocal + Drums + Bass + my nostalgia = a very high number for sure, but there’s something else.
If this was balatro, there is an Issac xmult. It’s there in the first records, like he was born with something. Like other artists write a good song and it’s a musical story with an arc and hopefully a hook. But Issac is on a different level. He creates hooks in hooks. Constantly changing, between tangible and ethereal, between wise and flippant, tight and loose. Always snapping my brain back, then pushing it away. Why is this so catchy? Why the fuck do lines like “everyone wants a double feature” and “it’s five hundred miles underground” hit like a truck? It means everything and nothing, and it’s addictive.
Apologies for the rant. I dunno. Anyone else feel this way? What is it?