{"product_id":"the-moon-antarctica","title":"The Moon \u0026 Antarctica","description":"Amazon.com\n\nWith their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world. Rarely giving off the cage-jarring thickness of guitar rock, Moon's 15 tunes are shaped around vignettes of a disheveled head figuring out the rambling disconnections of postmodern society. Guitars wobble, Brock wails on vocals, and his band mates--Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green--help take each song away from any predictable formula and toward wherever they seem to want to go. This is a band as profoundly touched by suburbia as was writer Harold Brodkey. You can imagine Brock, Green, and Judy lying on wide-open lawns, philosophizing about the shape of the universe and coming up with lyric moments like this (sung to folky, spare acoustic guitar): \"A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard and as my own dog ran away I didn't say much of anything at all \/ A wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard as my little sister played; the dogs took her away, and I guess she was eaten up, okay.\" Replays of American Beauty, anyone? --Andrew Bartlett\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0001I2CDY\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B0001I2CDY.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Modest Mouse\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case will show wear, and may be in library packaging. Ships fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41566862704698,"sku":"DBV.B0001I2CDY.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0001I2CDY-0.jpg?v=1785385081","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-moon-antarctica","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}