Week 24: Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts

It finally feels like summer. Sleepy, sleepy summer. Of course, I am sitting in an air-conditioned office drinking hot tea, but I can tell that it's nice outside. So what excitement has summer brought us? Well, my good friend Ruari and I know of one thing that should get hearts a beating - the new Kings of Leon tracks. Sure, they are hard to watch/listen to as it's typical, terrible quality cell phone footage, but you can sense that they might have regained that sneer, that swagger, that dirt that they had so much of in their youth. Of course, it's only two songs (Super Soaker & It Don't Matter) but that's enough to get me excited. Can they ever recapture the glorious super-tight-pant, belly-shirt, mustached, drugged-fueled days of their youth? Of course not. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Whatever your opinion, keep your eyes peeled. From what I've heard so far, we are going to have whoooooole lot of naysayers (all you who turned your backs - still can't believe how popular it got to dislike these guys) eating their caps.



Onto the business of the day. What's been draining my ipod for the last two weeks? Well, first and foremost, it would have to be the new National album. Simply put, it's fantastic. But The National's sombre melodies aren't fitting my Friday-afternoon-in-the-sun sensibilities, so I'll have to pass it on to what's been getting the second most play. For that we will have to look to Isaac & Co. Here is the very first song that made me fall in love with Modest Mouse waaaaaay back in 1997 (was released on the Interstate 8 EP in 1996)...

Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts