Modest Mouse announce new album 'An Eraser And A Maze'; share lead single ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’ • News • DIY Magazine

Modest Mouse have shared the news that they’ll be releasing their eighth studio album, ‘An Eraser And A Maze’, on 5th June via their new label home of Glacial Pace Recordings - the longtime imprint of frontman Isaac Brock - after being on Epic Records for over twenty years.

The follow up to 2021’s ‘The Golden Casket’, this next LP was produced by Brock, with additional production coming courtesy of Jackknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Suzy Shinn (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco), and Justin Raisin (Charli xcx, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty).

It promises to be an amalgamation of everything that’s coloured Modest Mouse’s discography to date - a record on which, according to press materials, “every era of Modest Mouse coexist[s] at once”.

Introducing ‘An Eraser And A Maze’ is its maximalist lead single ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’, which blasts apart meditations on our insanity-inducing modern world with gleeful, buoyant bombast.

Explaining more about the album’s throughline, Brock has noted: “For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen. 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’.”

Watch the official visualiser for ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’ here:

‘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