Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock has been known to take up to eight years between albums, but nearly three decades into his band's career, he's ready to pick up the pace. Three years after the release of the welcome The Golden Casket, has already recorded several songs for a new Modest Mouse album with producers like Jacknife Lee and Dave Sardy, and plans to release one by next spring. “In the early days of making records, I was writing music every fucking day,” he tells our Rolling Stone Music now podcast. “And then sometime The Moon and Antarctica, I spent less time and then I spent less time and less time, and then the gaps got big and I didn't like that. So, yeah, I'm glad to be back to writing every day again.”
The interview centers around the 20th anniversary of Modest Mouse's classic breakthrough, Good news for people who love bad news (which has an extended reissue now), and Brock also reveals that he's planning a fall tour with the original band that played on that album, including drummer Benjamin Weikel, who filled in for the late Jeremiah Green. “It's the only record where I can do a tour with all the live members, all the same exact members,” he says, acknowledging that he's still figuring out how to fill out the rest of the set list.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Brock delves into his creation Good news, from the creation of “Float On” to how his vow to quit drinking fell apart when he needed to track vocals. “I'd been off drinking for about two and a half months and during the vocals I actually thought about murder [producer] Dennis Herring,” he says with a laugh. “And I was like, I'll be back in a minute. I would go to the police station across the street. And I stood there and looked at it and thought about what my day would be like. And then I looked down the street and I saw a bar, and so I just wandered up to the bar.”
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