Modest Mouse have been playing this chipper No One’s First And You’re Next single live, and two days ago started streaming it, and they’re officially wasting no time getting out this video. It’s directed by Tool collaborator Kevin Willis, naturally, and taps that band’s predilection toward stop-motion fun, albeit more Lord Of The Rings-styled anthropomorphic tree(house)s than Jacob’s Ladder-styled violent twitchery. Also it features a Tool-esque muted color palette, until the little druid kid secures the Easter eggs and fastens them into the alien’s eye sockets so that he can birth a flock of delicious birds. But I mean, obviously.
In addition to appearing on No One’s First And You’re Next, “Satellite Skin” is the A-side to a “limited edition orange vinyl with an embossed sleeve and individually numbered to 4000″ vinyl pressing. It’s backed by another new one, “Guilty Cocker Spaniels,” which you’ll be able to hear right here on Monday.
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Wow, just watched “Return to Oz” last night, and this has more than a little of that same faux-kid-friendly, creepy vibe. Oh right, Tool.
Back Vagina
This is pretty cool.
“Tool’s Kevin Willis”. Huh? Are you thinking of Adam Jones? The guitarist. He who has directed pretty much every Tool video. Kevin Willis is a collaborator of the band. He’s not IN the band.
Modest Mouse makes the best video’s–the Missed The Boat video has always been a favorite.
Interesting references to Beetlejuice and Videodrome there. The creepy monsterish thing that births the birds from its eyes is all but a duplicate of the scary face Alec Baldwin makes in Beetlejuice. And yeah, the back vaginas are Cronenberg…
I KNEW IT WAS FROM SOMETHING! couldn’t place it but you just helped, haha – thanks!
Was I just out-wtf’d?
Nothing tops the Float on video. That was just creepy as hell.
don’t get me wrong i’m a big modest mouse fan, but that song sounded like a really terrible Bright Eyes song with the new way he’s singing.
This song just feels so out of touch with what they are, so conventional… I wish they went back to they’re roots..
Agree with you folks.
This song is horrible.
Why would anyone wan tto ever listen to this?
People must have been telling them that they are really good…
You’re right this song is terrible. But the band does have some good stuff. Check out The Moon And Antarctica if you’re a first time listener. That’s the album that made me a fan.
I loved 3rd Planet from M&A. I liked watching them live on David Letterman when they did this song – I know their videos are not what the songs are about – but this one is wild!!!
It sounds like a Tragically Hip song.
Wow.. way too many downers on this site.
Great song, cool video.
This probably means that I know nothing but I’ve liked them since the beginning and I still really like this song. I’m so uncool that I still like them when they’re popular. Does this mean I agree with everyone or no-one?
We Were Dead… definitely wasn’t as good as any of their other albums, and nor is this. But that’s probably because Modest Mouse doesn’t sound like Modest Mouse any more, they sound like a typically indie i-want-to-fit-and-get-radio-spin band
loooooooooser…
How is this any more pop-oriented than Building Something Out of Nothing? They’ve always been a guitar pop band with experimental tendencies. Some of their earliest songs like “Interstate 8″ and “Baby Blue Sedan” weren’t any different than a lot of the stuff on We Were Dead. Yeah, “Dashboard” and “Missed the Boat” were grabs at radio play, but you still had “Parting of the Sensory” and “Spitting Venom,” which were more in line with The Moon and Antarctica’s weirdness. They’re one of the few indie bands that legitimately deserves any and all the success they get, and I can’t begrudge them that like so many seem to want to do.
“Parting of the Sensory” and “Spitting Venom,” which were more in line with The Moon and Antarctica’s weirdness.”
Uh what? Nothing about either of those songs constitutes the use of the word weird……..We Were Dead was an extremely radio friendly/ready album
I think its an impossibility for me to hate any modest mouse song. If i like most of them straight away, but if not then i like it after a couple of listens. Fact.
sellout
What’s up with the wooden backgina? Subliminal images of female genitalia, now that’s the true sign of a sell out band.
So what if a few songs made it onto the airwaves? Modest Mouse is an awesome band, and if all you can say is sellout, I suggest you go back to listening to bands that you only like just because they aren’t famous.
You uppity fuck
i would have to agree with the last comment posted, honestly you people have no idea what your talking about. they’ve had other stuff tht has the same feel as this all the way but they always pull through with some real tight shit. and shouldnt u want good music to actually appear on the radio so this other crap gets tuned out. come on dude, wtf. its not the best i’ve heard but its still pretty damn good. sounds like a lot of “posers”, no offense, (hate tht word) who wish to be indie small band fans. its about the music man (:
i think those are birdhouses, not treehouses, hence their relative size and birds at the end.
That procession, especially at the beginning of the video, was straight out of Kurosawa’s Dreams (the foxes’ woodland procession in his first dream — probably somewhere on youtube, check it out)…possibly an homage . I can’t imagine I’m the only one that caught that. Kurosawa’s version was much more eerie, though (his fox people = anthropomorphism at its finest…and creepiest, haha).
Sounds better than nearly the entire last album.
It’s a good song, and somehow an incredible disturbing video. Pan’s Labyrinth comes to mind as soon as the monster appears.
I’m sorry, but did any of you actually, ‘listen,’ to the last album over the, “UNCOOL(!)” hype of Modest Mouse actually getting an audience?
Assuming that none of you have heard it, I’ll fill you in, it was incredible. From start to finish it’s packed full of brilliant Isaac Brock lyrics, darker and more coherent than ever, that apparently nobody has heard. First off, “Our bodies were laid out, evenly for 15 yards, while two feet above each uh our heads was a fly trapped in a jar.” It’s great imagery to the core. Anyway, I thought I did, but I don’t have the time to defend my favourite band(10 on off years). The moon and antarctica was great, better than they’re new albums, but only better in a sense of, this is an incredible fresh way to write and record. I’m sure Isaac is not at home right now wondering how he can make this next album more radio friendly.
take someone off a pedestal for a minute. the only thing they are doing differently than you is putting out records… at an alarmingly consistent rate with commercial and critical success. they developed a cult status like 5 records ago….wait, these guys are totally different from you. you are at your parents house blogging away with hands glazed of half hour old semen after masturbating to some imdb image of an indie actress who will never hear your shit band.
ahhh….chloe sevigny.
how can u say this song is horrible. not the best but not horrible. same with callin we were dead bad. isaacs lyrics in pretty much that whole album were awesome. im a bigger fan of their old shit more to. but cmon there new shit kicks ass to
I was dressed for suck.
Modest Mouse is my favorite music, but just because they have some more songs that have got more attention, doesnt mean theyre sellouts. I hate people who complain about the style of them now, if your dissapointed enough, go and write your own shit.
I think so, I think so. Yeah they passed the audition!