VOL № E111 — March 2022
COMING SOON: The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse will be the March 2022 Essentials Record of the Month. You're on the interest list and will be notified when it becomes available. Sign up to be notified by email when this album launches.
“What really stands out about The Lonesome Crowded West is this journey it takes you on. Less like a concept album and more like a road trip soundtrack. It meanders between feelings of grinding teeth and soothing calm, love and heartache, hope and despair, with the mood and emotion shifting like tumbleweeds on a gusty day. The words really make you think, with riddle-like complexity at times.
There’s an endearing honesty and authenticity inherent to this album that doesn’t exist in a lot of popular music. It’s similar to a piece of beautiful framed art, sculpture or metalwork that is obviously handmade, due to the fact that it exhibits noticeable imperfections. Perfectly imperfect: The Lonesome Crowded West.”
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 Teeth Like God's Shoeshine |
| 2 Heart Cooks Brain |
| 3 Convenient Parking |
| 4 Baby Blue Sedan |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Jesus Christ Was an Only Child |
| 2 Doin' The Cockroach |
| 3 Cowboy Dan |
| 4 Trailer Trash |
LP 2 / Side C
| 1 \Kehabisan Bahan Bakar\ \\ |
| 2 \Seng mageran jauh\ \\ |
| 3 \Sial Beruntung\ \\ |
| 4 \Atlas Trucker\ \\ |
LP 2 / Side D
| 1 Polar Opposites |
| 2 Bankrupt on Selling |
| 3 Lounge (Closing Time) |
| 4 Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice on Ice‚ Alright |
