Great album, loving it.

Ehh, this is a big hit or miss for me. The last four are the strongest on the album.

Why had nobody told me about Modest Mouse before I joined this site? Why people why? As someone who plays guitar and dabbles in songwriting I listen to a lot of music and think "If I was more focused I could've written this", then you hear someone with a natural gift like Isaac Brock and think "Why bother?" The variety of songs is such that on first listen I thought it sounded like a compilation of different bands, a feeling enhanced by Brock's ability to go from a cute little Doug Martsch/Wayne Coyne kind of voice to a big shouty Frank Black voice with apparent ease. On subsequent listens as the songs settled in my mind and I became comfortable with the reality that there was only 1 vocalist and not 2 or 3 as I'd first thought I realised I was in the prescence of a special talent. The one question mark that hangs in my head is how calculated the songs are. Has Brock set out to write a Pixies song, a Built to Spill song, a Tom Waits song etc? But if he has what the hell? if you're good enough to write songs like those people go for it. Propelled by the infectiousness of Float On, Bury Me With It and Dancehall (which should come with a medical warning: Do not consume in a public place as IT WILL MAKE you jump around like an idiot) I feel like this album is on an inexorable path towards my top 100 chart and it's gonna take some stopping.

I didn't know Happymeal was a Mumford & Sons fan :-D

I used to think Float on was the best on this album, but I've gotta say, I love the banjo in Satin in a coffin :)

Some bands don't make the transition from a smaller label to a major company. Well, Modest Mouse being Modest Mouse, they defied the odds. This album doesn't sacrifice quality or X-factor for anything. It remains another consistently strong album in Modest Mouse's impressive and enviable discography.

Not as good as old Mouse, but I'm glad that they changed their sounds. There are certain bands that have one great album and stay with that sound throughout their careers, so it's hard to appreciate anything they've released over anything else, but Modest Mouse did change their sound, and they didn't do a bad job either. I prefer we were dead over this though.

A few really strong tracks mixed with some average ones. The more refined sound wasn't a bad direction to go in as they've still got plenty of personality, but I prefer their earlier albums.

Stronger past the half mark. Interesting to listen, but feels kind of unemotional at times.

Even though it is plagued by a couple of bad songs, it has enough greatness to be considered legendary. The World At Large, Float On, and The Good Times Are Killing Me can be considered perfect songs.