I don't know if anyone else is getting the same vibe, but the new Modest Mouse album feels like it's going to have a "human party leading to self-destruction theme." With the world on the brink of destroying itself and WW3 looming, Isaac has hit a stage in his career where he's finally made it in terms of mainstream success and financial well being. This reflects in his lyrics quite a bit, "money" in Poison The Well, and in this one talking about humans will keep going to the next big thing.
I think in a lot of ways he's using these lyrics to simultaneously describe how the band has reached this success, and now everything is a big pointless party, so what else is there to write about? That's the vibe I get, he's spat all life lyrical themes already, so what else is there to say other then, time to party and destroy ourselves, similar to "the good times are killing me" and what humanity is doing to itself right now.
The circular theme is still quite prevalent in the lyrics, although in a less complex way from past albums, now he's bascially saying "Well I did this, did that, no what? Oh wait there's no point but whatever Bah Bah badadadaa." The reference to "floating in outer space" is interesting because if that's the actual line I think that he's referring to the band's contemplative experiences during Moon & Antarctica, and now he's at a stage where it's time to move onto the next big thing, pointless partying and eventual self-destruction.
Then again I could be overanlayzing, but that's the vibe I get from the first two songs for the new album. It's like a rambling party of optimistic pessimism. If it has a party theme, props to MM for keeping it original and always doing something different.
I don't know if anyone else is getting the same vibe, but the new Modest Mouse album feels like it's going to have a "human party leading to self-destruction theme." With the world on the brink of destroying itself and WW3 looming, Isaac has hit a stage in his career where he's finally made it in terms of mainstream success and financial well being. This reflects in his lyrics quite a bit, "money" in Poison The Well, and in this one talking about humans will keep going to the next big thing.
I think in a lot of ways he's using these lyrics to simultaneously describe how the band has reached this success, and now everything is a big pointless party, so what else is there to write about? That's the vibe I get, he's spat all life lyrical themes already, so what else is there to say other then, time to party and destroy ourselves, similar to "the good times are killing me" and what humanity is doing to itself right now.
The circular theme is still quite prevalent in the lyrics, although in a less complex way from past albums, now he's bascially saying "Well I did this, did that, no what? Oh wait there's no point but whatever Bah Bah badadadaa." The reference to "floating in outer space" is interesting because if that's the actual line I think that he's referring to the band's contemplative experiences during Moon & Antarctica, and now he's at a stage where it's time to move onto the next big thing, pointless partying and eventual self-destruction.
Then again I could be overanlayzing, but that's the vibe I get from the first two songs for the new album. It's like a rambling party of optimistic pessimism. If it has a party theme, props to MM for keeping it original and always doing something different.
@equivocalx Nihilsm. You should try it.
@equivocalx Nihilsm. You should try it.