isaac brock
Modest Mouse’s Aware-anoia and Singing Through the End Times
Isaac Brock is talking about the epiphany he had from the moment he became a musician. “From the inception of this band, there’ve been some pretty wobbly moments,” the Modest Mouse vocalist and guitarist admits. “There were moments where no one considered us fucking good … But I know what I like.” 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. The unapologetic kind. 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. Brock intimately understands this state of mind while pacing around his warehouse studio a...
