Modest Mouse: Interstate 8 EP Vinyl

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Why you'll love it

This Glacial Pace reissue comes on 180g vinyl with a square insert and a download card. Long sought after by collectors, it adds the band's original demo, Live in Sunburst Montana, to the studio cuts.

This edition

180g vinyl
Printed insert
Download card included

About the album

Every band has a garage period; Modest Mouse just had the good sense to tape theirs. The Live in Sunburst Montana demo, which fills the second side, came out of Isaac Brock's garage in Issaquah, Washington, long before most people outside the Pacific Northwest knew the name.

Brock sings and plays guitar, Eric Judy holds down the bass and Jeremiah Green drums, with Nicole Johnson adding vocals to "Interstate 8" and "Sleepwalking." "Tundra/Desert," "Novocain Stain" and "Beach Side Property" turned up again on the debut album This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, and "All Night Diner" later landed on the rarities set Building Nothing Out of Something.

Brock brought it back on his own label in 2015, and the restless, wide-eyed sound of the later records is already here. It's a fine argument for never throwing out the tapes in the garage, a principle we also apply to the stockroom, with mixed results.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. Interstate 8
2. All Night Diner
3. Sleepwalking (Couples Only Dance Prom Night)
4. Tundra/Desert
5. Edit The Sad Parts

Side B
1. Beach Side Property
2. Buttons To Push The Buttons
3. Novocain Stain
4. Broke
5. Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive/Negative)
6. Edit The Sad Parts