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Even though they only just released their new album Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse have revealed that they’re already planning their next album, which is expected to be released in 2016 and will feature Nirvana's Krist Novoselic.
Speaking with Hot Press, frontman Isaac Brock said: "We ended up finishing tracking with one of [Novoselic’s] songs that will end up on the next record. It fits the second piece, the companion piece to this record, a bit better. We basically made two records at the same time. Which, if people look at it that way, cuts down the amount of time it took us to make this record in HALF, man!”
He also discussed a tentative title for the forthcoming LP – Whabever (no, that is not a typo). “Here's an actual fucking story,” he shared. “I feel terrible mentioning, because I might actually call the next record this... I thought, 'okay, I always put out these long fucking titles, and I wanna not do that.' And so I came up with this cover art which Epic were like 'you could do that but we can't sell that anywhere'. But I'm still going to get the cover art together. It's fucking dark, it's awesome.”
"But the title was just going to be Whatever. And the dumbest thing... I was going to misspell 'Whatever'. You know like, just have it be 'Whabever'. I just wanted to go as dumb as fucking possible. Mainly to be antagonistic and just cos I kinda thought it was funny."
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Modest Mouse are going on tour, kicking off on Aprilil 17 in Buffalo, NY. You can see their full tour date listing below.
April 17 - Asbury Hall at Babeville Buffalo, NY
April 19 - Barton Hall at Cornell University Ithaca, NY
April 20 - Stage AE Pittsburgh, PA
April 22 - Minglewood Hall Memphis, TN
April 24 - Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
April 25 - Edge Fest - Toyota Stadium Frisco, TX
May 02 - Parklife Festival Cape Town, South Africa
May 03 - Parklife Festival Johannesburg, South Africa
May 23 - Sasquatch Music Festival Chelan, WA
June 06 - Live 105 BFD - Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
June 19 - Firefly Festival Dover, DE
June 21 - Rock the Garden Minneapolis, MN
June 26 - Tinderbox Festival Odense, Denmark
June 27 - Bravalla Festival Norrkoping, Sweden
June 30 - Huxleys Berlin, Germany
July 01 - Open'er Festival Gdynia, Poland
July 04 - Calling Festival London, United Kingdom
July 05 - The Institute Birmingham, United Kingdom
July 07 - The Ritz Manchester, United Kingdom
July 08 - O2 Academy Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
July 09 - O2 Academy Newcastle, United Kingdom
July 10 - The Helix Dublin, Ireland
July 12 - T In The Park Perth, United Kingdom
July 19 - Forecastle Festival Louisville, KY
July 22 - Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell Brooklyn, NY
July 23 - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion Boston, MA
July 25 - HomeAway Music and Arts Festival Oro-Medonte, Canada
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