Then I just kept following my path."Ī decade later, that path led Brock to unimaginable success. "When I first started, there was a K Records pop scene in the Seattle area where the overarching vibe for popular alternative was a don't-give-a-fuck attitude," Brock remembers. "I drifted from that quick, where I was like I wanted songs to have depth and interesting sounds. Influenced by pioneers the Dead Milkmen and the Pixies, Modest Mouse had the wordy, lyrical wit of the former and the constant shifting between loud and quiet of the latter. It has been nearly 30 years since a teenaged Brock formed Modest Mouse in his hometown of Issaquah, Washington. We're all getting used to each other again, you germy bunch of motherfuckers." It reflects in the energy, but there's also a little bit of a cautious vibe too. They needed to get out and see music and stuff. "Getting out to play for people that come out to the shows, it's been really nice," he says. But with album titles like Good News for People Who Love Bad News and Building Nothing Out of Something, Brock seems used to how silver linings and dark clouds mesh. With its upcoming show at the Fillmore on Friday, October 15, the indie-rock band is now dealing with the complications that have plagued the music industry since the onset of the pandemic. Just sat in traffic on the fucking freeway on the way to Georgia." And then we got on our bus and show after show got canceled. "We played the show in this huge venue, but only 800 people were as dumb as us to stick around - I don't want to call anyone dumb, but, you know, optimistic. "Yeah, we got run up the coast," frontman Isaac Brock tells New Times. The last time Modest Mouse played the Fillmore Miami Beach, Hurricane Irma came in its wake.
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