Modest Mouse are doing the same thing at the start of this decade as they did at the start of the 2000s: releasing The Moon and Antarctica. Except that this decade gets a fancy-pants, 10th-anniversary-edition, vinyl reissue of the album!
Vinyl copies of the album, which made it to #51 on our decade list, have been out-of-print and extremely hard to find for years, and Modest Mouse figured they could celebrate a decade of The Moon and Antarctica by not making their fans pay a bunch of money just to hear the album at 33 RPMs. So, Isaac Brock and co. took their major-label debut, critical-darling third album and remastered it, and pet it, and restored the original artwork, and caressed it, and replicated the original “infinite-lock-groove” found on the original vinyl copies, and loved it, and got it all pretty for an April 17 release date.
Fans can pre-order the reissue at Modest Mouse’s modest website.
• Modest Mouse: http://www.modestmouse.com
• Epic Records: http://www.epicrecords.com
• Legacy Recordings: http://www.legacyrecordings.com
[Photo: Aaron Farrington]
