Overview
- The band, which announced the album Tuesday, set a June 5 release on Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace with distribution by Virgin Music Group.
- The record is the group’s first indie-label LP since 1997 and its first new album in five years.
- Alongside the news, Modest Mouse released the opening track “Picking Dragon’s Pockets” and pointed back to March’s single “Look How Far” with Janet Weiss on drums.
- Isaac Brock produced the album with Jacknife Lee, Suzy Shinn, and Justin Raisen, and credits list Raisen as a guest on “Rotten Fruit.”
- The group expanded its 2026 tour, which starts May 12 in Spokane and ends Oct. 23 in Sacramento, with festival stops and an Aug. 17 opening slot for My Chemical Romance in Washington, D.C.