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Good News For People Who Love Bad News
by Modest Mouse
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Overall Rating:
3.2634
Avg. Critic Score:
3.1148
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All Music GuideEven though this album isn't as immediately or showily brilliant as The Moon & Antarctica, Good News for People Who Love Bad News reveals itself as just as strong a statement. ...more
PopMattersReview 1: ...more
Entertainment Weekly[A] Tom Waits-ian reinvention
Rolling StoneOn the group's fourth proper album, a mightier Mouse refine their weirdness and become a pop band while grasping at dark truths that pop ordinarily denies. ...more
Rolling StoneModest Mouse could easily be mistaken for indie-rock also-rans - they look like small-town misfits and usually sound like that, too, between their detuned guitars and unpretentious Pavement affect. ...more
Reviews by score:
See all (11) "Excellent" Reviews
Spin
Half expansive, burnished radio-rock, half swampy Delta hoodoo-hollerin' that reeks of Brock's Southern...read the complete review at Spin
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E! Online
If there's a touchstone band for this album, it's Little Creatures-era Talking Heads cranking out songs that are joyously eccentric, celebratory and catchy....read the complete review at E! Online
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Blender
[Brock is] adept at wringing out emotion while straddling sentimentality, but too often here, gauche studio affectations make his sap sound plain...read the complete review at Blender
See all (1) "Fair" Reviews
The Austin Chronicle
Good news for people who worried that the departure of drummer Jeremiah Green would torpedo Modest Mouse's sound: You can rest easy. While replacement Benjamin Weikel is less busy than Green, he injects a distinct personality into his simpler,...read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle
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musicOMH.com
Modest Mouse have been known as Seattle's best kept secret for a while now, forming over ten years ago and releasing five increasingly well-received albums. The marvellously titled Good News For People Who Love Bad News is the band's sixth album and has...read the complete review at musicOMH.com
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