Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West (purple) (2lp) (rock)

Rough-edged and cinematic—Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West is a landmark of late-90s indie rock: sprawling, urgent, and at times achingly beautiful. The album captures Isaac Brock’s strained poetry and the band’s knack for huge, jagged dynamics—songs that can sound intimate one minute and stadium-sized the next. This Vinyl Me, Please Essentials pressing (E111) gives the record a collector’s presentation that matches its mythic reputation while letting the remastered sound breathe across two LPs. Discogs+1

Label / Edition: Glacial Pace / Vinyl Me, Please — Essentials E111 (VMP exclusive 2×LP). Discogs+1
Released: Original album 1997; this VMP reissue (2×LP, remastered / club edition) issued as part of VMP’s Essentials series (E111). Discogs+1

Track Highlights

• “Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine” — A wrenching opener that pairs jagged guitars with Brock’s strained vocal delivery; it sets the album’s uneasy tone.

• “Doin’ the Cockroach” — A brittle, propulsive track that showcases the band’s rhythmic unpredictability and lyrical bite.

• “Cowboy Dan” — One of the album’s emotional centers: melodic, mournful, and anthemic all at once.
  These tracks demonstrate how the album balances rawness and melody, and the double-LP format gives them the presence they deserve