Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is honestly one of the strangest bands I have ever had the pleasure of listening too.  Not only do their songs fail to make any sense whatsoever, the music they make is...  It's just strange.  They combine many different instruments in different ways that you just don't expect.  Even when using regular instruments you'd find in any band, especially with the electric guitar, they turn it around and create something completely radical and uncommon.  The real question is, is this a bad thing?  Far from it!  Good News for People Who Love Bad News is a completely refreshing album that sounds like anything you've never heard of.  This indie album is an experience in itself that leaves you singing along to words that make no sense at all, and enjoying it!

Noteworthy songs!  Their most famous track from this album is Float On, an upbeat song about hitting a cop car and being cool with it (told you so), with some simple and enjoyable guitar.  Another is Ocean Breathes Salty, another entertaining, nonsensical song with some clever lyrics.  Also, The World At Large, a melancholic song that makes looking at a sunset a tear-jerking event.  Last but not least, one of my favorite MM songs, The Good Times Are Killing Me, an upbeat song that somehow sounds slightly... sad.  I love this song especially because it evokes so many feelings in me, something that I think music needs to do.  After all, isn't that the definition of art?  Something that evokes feeling in an individual?  (I'm not sure, I didn't look it up)

Overall, a great chill/upbeat album, a strange combination that rarely works well.  If you want to listen to something completely new and different in the indie/alternative genre, this should be one of your next listens.  It's an experience that I enjoy repeating every once in a while without getting old.  I  highly recommend this album.