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Sad Sappy Sucker
Rock · 2001 · 24 tracks

Sad Sappy Sucker

Modest Mouse

Twenty-four tracks of jittery, tape-hissing indie rock sketches. A raw, unpolished time capsule of the band's formative Pacific Northwest basement sound.

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It's like finding a lost cassette tape of Isaac Brock's fever dreams from 1994.

A nervous, rainy-day collection of sketches that feels both lonely and strangely comforting.

Sad Sappy Sucker · vs · Modest Mouse
Rainy Day+1.7σ

Rainy Day saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 24 Tracks
01
Worms vs. Birds
2:13
02
Four Fingered Fisherman
2:28
03
Wagon Ride Return
0:48
04
Classy Plastic Lumber
2:03
05
From Point A to Point B (∞)
2:56
06
Path of Least Resistance
0:28
07
It Always Rains on a Picnic
3:02
08
Dukes Up
2:25
09
Think Long
1:10
10
Every Penny Fed Car
3:07
11
Mice Eat Cheese
2:27
12
Race Car Grin You Ain’t No Landmark
1:14
13
Red Hand Case
2:37
14
Secret Agent X‒9
1:12
15
Blue Cadet‒3, Do You Connect?
1:09
16
Call to Dial a Song
0:32
17
5‒4‒3‒2‒1 Lipsoff
0:30
18
Woodgrain
0:30
19
BMX Crash
0:28
20
Sucker Bet
1:20
21
Black Blood & Old Newagers
0:29
22
SWY
0:30
23
Austral Opithecus
0:30
24
Sin Gun Chaser
0:28
Moments Worth Waiting For
The brittle, piercing guitar harmonics that open Worms vs. Birds setting a nervous tone.
The sudden transition into the Dial-a-Song snippets that feel like eavesdropping on a private voicemail.
The way It Always Rains on a Picnic collapses into a beautiful, repetitive melodic sludge.
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