Modest Mouse: Modest Mouse : Lonesome Crowded West

Subject to it's own Pitchfork documentary. listed in numerous prestigious Best Albums of the 90s lists. and destined to be re-discovered by continuous generations. THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST stands as the defacto Northwest indie-rock record. Originally released in 1997. it not only helped shape the sound that came to be associated with the American Pacific Northwest. but across these sprawling. wide-open 15 songs. Modest House helped redefine what was possible for guitar music. As such. THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST has often been mimicked. but it's awesome open-hearted existentialism and manic ambition has rarely been matched. A modern classic that demands reappraisal.