In order to have the best experience, please upgrade to a more modern browser. Rather than having a gatefold cover to house both records, or putting both records in a single cover, the double-vinyl release was shipped in two different covers. The Lonesome Crowded West received positive reviews from critics, and appeared on several lists of the best albums of the 1990s. [16] Sam Hockley-Smith, in a retrospective review for Stereogum, refers to The Lonesome Crowded West as "the album that made Modest Mouse a great band instead of just a good one" and writes that the primary theme of disillusionment in Brock's lyrics is "not pretty, but it's honest, and that honesty makes it beautiful, like Modest Mouse were desperately trying — and failing — to hold onto that last bit of naiveté. The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on November 18, 1997 by Up Records. The Lonesome Crowded West is a journey. Features a vinyl bonus track and slightly reordered tracklist. The Lonesome Crowded West received positive reviews from critics, and appeared on several lists of the best albums of the 1990s. classics and underrated albums are separate in this series, I'm just gonna drop the underrated part because yeah it's confusing, Album Rating: 5.0also nice summary thats good words, Album Rating: 5.0I mean it was kind of underrated for a modest mouse album? Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Album Rating: 5.0This is honestly my favorite Modest Mouse album, you did it justice. The Lonesome Crowded West is Modest Mouse’s sophomore album, the follow up to April 1996’s This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. The Lonesome Crowded West is Modest Mouse’s sophomore album, the follow up to April 1996’s This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. Hefty price tag but worth it. The album was reissued by Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace label in 2014, along with Modest Mouse's 1996 debut This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About The two towers pictured on the album's cover are The Westin Seattle. it's on a newspaper print paper .. The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on November 18, 1997 by Up Records. The album was later reissued on Brock’s label, Glacial Pace, in 2014. The Lonesome Crowded West was initially released in CD and LP format, with “Baby Blue Sedan” being exclusively released on the LP edition. ... A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Anyone interested in parting with LP2? View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 Vinyl release of The Lonesome Crowded West on Discogs. If you dig indie rock at its very best, go pick this album up. Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright. The 2014 vinyl reissue on Glacial Pace contains the same track listing and two-cover configuration. The Lonesome Crowded West fine-tunes forms that were introduced on Long Drive. The documentary included archival footage taken during live performances and original recording/mix sessions. It’s crowded but lonesome. Worth the $. Owned the original version of the Fruit That Ate Itself and Sad Sappy Sucker and have never heard a repressed version so I can't comment there. Album Rating: 5.0I might as well declare December Modest Mouse month as well, Digging: Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now. Isaac Brock is at his peak here with some very harsh vocal delivery and superb lyricism. [13] Spin ranked the album at number 59 in their list of the 100 greatest albums of 1985–2005,[14] and Entertainment Weekly included the album in their list The Indie Rock 25. 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The album was released on Up Records on November 18, 1997, on both compact disc and vinyl LP. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. The repressing sounds distorted as well, original does not (applies to all of the records that I have heard.). Yet for every high there is a low; that’s certainly the case with “Out of Gas,” in … I find the reissue gives me a headache in headphones. I spent a big chunk of my tax refund on a sealed copy of this (original pressing) and I wanted to say it sounds infinitely better than the reissue. Feverishly raking his strings, he whips them into a clanging ruckus on "Doin’ the Cockroach." Issued in two separate LP sleeves. Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright, (LP, Pur + LP, Whi + Album, Ltd, RE, 180), (LP, Sea + LP, Bro + Album, Ltd, RE, 180), (LP, Red + LP, Gre + Album, Ltd, RE, 180), Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (Side A): UP.044-A 1800.1(2) SAE MASTERING, Matrix / Runout (Side B): UP.044-B 1800.2(2), Matrix / Runout (Side C): UP.044-C 1800.3(2), Matrix / Runout (Side D): UP.044-D 1800.4(2).