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Every album ever written is either about love found or love lost. That’s a given. But Death Cab for Cutie's latest? Kintsugi is about both and neither at the same time. It’s about waiting for a phone call, about counting down hours until she’s home, about wondering what distance will change and what it won’t.
Strangers to Ourselves is a very fitting title for Modest Mouse’s most recent studio album. The band from Issaquah, WA came back on stage with an ambitiously long record after a 7 year hiatus. The album in its entirety is composed of fifteen songs, each with a strained melancholy beaten into them and more than a hint of experimental production. Although at first the despondence and angst in the album are surprising, these qualities make sense after considering Brock’s potential feeling of irrelevance in the music scene after such a long hiatus.
