Modest Mouse have announced their first new album in five years. An Eraser and a Maze marks the band’s first release on Glacial Pace Recordings, the longtime imprint of lead singer Isaac Brock, after over two decades on Epic Records. Following 2021’s The Golden Casket, it’s set for release on June 5. Check out the exuberant lead single, ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’, below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
An Eraser and a Maze was produced by Brock, with additional production by Jackknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Suzy Shinn (Weezer), and Justin Raisin (Charli xcx, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty). The group began working on it immediately following 2021’s The Golden Casket, initially coming up with six songs that Brock considered releasing with his side project, Ugly Casanova, before deciding to expand the collection, which includes the previously released track ‘Look How Far’.
“For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen,” Brock explained in a statement. “Even though every goddamn musician says that when they put out a record. I mean, go ahead and listen to the three-minute mark of any interview between a musician and Terry Gross …” He added, “Thoughts, emotions, feelings, all that stuff … you’re like the soup, and it’s not always easy to pick out the ingredients. I don’t dwell on things much. I don’t grieve much. I’m not sure I’m a person. I feel like I should have more feelings than I do. But then, you know, I’ll sing stuff. And I’m like, Oh, there it is. Oh — it’s in there.”
An Eraser and a Maze Cover Artwork:
An Eraser and a Maze Tracklist:
1. Picking Dragon’s Pockets
2. Remember Yourself
3. Life’s A Dream
4. Third Side Of The Moon
5. Dogbed in Heaven/Give It A Skeleton
6. Interlude
7. I Can’t Talk Right Now
8. Speak ‘N Spell (Or Not)
9. Rotten Fruit (feat. Justin Raisin)
10. Knocked Down By Waves
11. Absolutely Necessary Never
12. Song About Nothing
13. Stoner Party
14. Look How Far
15. Impossible Somedays
