Modest Mouse are making music worth boasting about

ISAAC BROCK sounds as if heās just tumbled out of bed. Modest Mouseās songwriter-in-chief speaks in the creaky whisper of someone far older than his 39 years and will often lapse into unexpected pauses, as if his train of recollection has crashed into the buffers. He ought to be filled with coffee and placed gingerly beside an open window.
āIām in the swing of it dude,ā he says of returning with Strangers To Ourselves, his first Modest Mouse album in eight years. āI mean, Iām never not in the swing of it. People wonder where Iāve got to. Iāve just been busy ā busy with other s**t.ā