Familiar and dizzying, both Brock and the twelve songs of Modest Mouse’s latest seventh-studio album, The Golden Casket (out on June 25 via Epic Records), invites listeners to the most topic-shifting hyperjump. “You could build the nicest cynical castle you want,” he laughs.

The archives of indie rock history are packed with songs lamenting the fate of the artist’s journey – an in-between channel where a quest for stories either frees us to create our own, or tethers us to our past.īrock intimately understands this state of mind while pacing around his warehouse studio at noon.

To suggest that the greatest screw-you towards anyone who attempts to push you down is to just live your life with emphatic passion and make the damn art anyway requires guts. “There were moments where no one considered us fucking good … But I know what I like.” “From the inception of this band, there’ve been some pretty wobbly moments,” the Modest Mouse vocalist and guitarist admits. Isaac Brock is talking about the epiphany he had from the moment he became a musician.

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