Modest Mouse Frontman Isaac Brock on the 8-Year Wait for Their New LP & His Issues With 'Portlandia' — billboard.com

What's the deal with Modest Mouse? Eight years since its last studio LP and eleven since the surprise success of "Float On," the 22-year old band finally returns with Strangers to Ourselves, a rollicking 57-minute indie rock power trip through old west saloon pianos, disjointed, careening riffs, and existential doubt. There's the maniacal, animatronic vocal distortion of "Pistol" -- basically Modest Mouse trying to make a Migos song -- followed three tracks later by "Coyotes," a wispy ballad about natural preservation. The main Modest Mouse photo on Epic's website still featured Johnny Marr (who hadn't played with the band since 2008) up until March 13, when the Billboard magazine version of this story called attention to it. But Epic has stayed patient with these Portland misfits, and oddly enough, so has frontman Isaac Brock.

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