Modest Marr

I was doing a little catching up on news and I stumbled upon this. Johnny Marr of legendary Smiths fame has officially joined Modest Mouse. Apparantly he was helping them write some songs for their next effort and ended up being a part of the entire thing. Lead singer Isaac Brock is saying "He made a cautious commitment to write and record with us, and then the tighter we got, he was like, ‘okay, let's tour too.' Then he was pretty much a member of the band-- not pretty much. He's a full blown member of the band. It's really fuckin' nice." The new disc is tentatively titled We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and is slated for release later this year. This is pretty interesting news, I can't wait to hear what this is going to sound like. In the meantime, you will have to mash them in your head.

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