{"id":10389,"date":"2026-04-21T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/modest-mouse-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:08:00","slug":"modest-mouse-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/modest-mouse-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Modest Mouse Is Newly Indie On \u2018Eraser\u2019 LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/04\/26_03_24_ModestMouse_Portland_0172F2NC-copy-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1776\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Robin Laananen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Modest Mouse will be back this summer with its first new album in five years \u2014 and, notably, its return to an indie ecosystem after spending more than 25 years on Epic. <em>An Eraser and a Maze<\/em>, is due June 5 via Glacial Pace Recordings, the long-running imprint overseen by frontman Isaac Brock with distribution from Virgin Music Group.<\/p>\n<p>The band has shared the album\u2019s opening track, \u201cPicking Dragon\u2019s Pockets,\u201d a bombastic, hook-heavy entry point that leans into the group\u2019s knack for turning existential unease into something strangely anthemic. It follows previously released lead single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/03\/modest-mouse-new-single\/\">Look How Far<\/a>\u201d with former Sleater-Kinney member Janet Weiss on drums; <a href=\"https:\/\/modest-mouse.lnk.to\/AnEraserAndAMaze\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to pre-order the set in various formats.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/newport-jazz-lineup\/\">Herbie, Kamasi, Thundercat Top Loaded Newport Jazz<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/cbgb-festival-lineup\/\">CBGB Fest Reboots With Morrissey, Patti Smith<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/beck-new-single\/\">Beck Is \u2018Lonesome\u2019 Once More On New Single, Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"SL8JuRgEajs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Produced by Brock, <em>An Eraser and a Maze<\/em> also features contributions from Jackknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Suzy Shinn (Weezer) and Justin Raisen (Charli xcx, Kim Gordon). The album has reportedly been in the works since the release of 2021\u2019s <em>The Golden Casket<\/em>, with an initial batch of songs nearly spun off into Brock\u2019s side project Ugly Casanova before evolving into a full-length Modest Mouse release.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on a physics theory that suggests past, present, and future all exist simultaneously, <em>An Eraser and a Maze<\/em> is said to be a convergence of Modest Mouse\u2019s scrappy Pacific Northwest indie beginnings on Up Records, its own idiosyncratic take on major-label polish and its late-career experimentation. \u201cThoughts, emotions, feelings, all that stuff \u2026 you\u2019re like the soup, and it\u2019s not always easy to pick out the ingredients,\u201d Brock reflects. \u201cI don\u2019t dwell on things much. I don\u2019t grieve much. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m a person. I feel like I should have more feelings than I do. But then, you know, I\u2019ll sing stuff. And I\u2019m like, Oh, there it is. Oh \u2014 it\u2019s in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modest Mouse has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modestmouse.com\/#tour\" target=\"_blank\">greatly expanded<\/a> its 2026 touring plans, which begin May 12 in Spokane, Wa., and will now wrap Oct. 23 in Sacramento, Ca. Among the itinerary highlights are appearances at such festivals at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 7 and Shaky Knees in Atlanta on Sept. 20 and an Aug. 17 opening set for My Chemical Romance at Washington, D.C.\u2019s Nationals Park.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Robin Laananen) Modest Mouse will be back this summer with its first new album in five years \u2014 and, notably, its return to an indie ecosystem after spending more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5570,5572,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaac-brock","category-modest-mouse","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}