- indie rock, rock, alternative and punk
- 74 min
- 15 tracks
- Up Records
The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on November 18, 1997, by Up Records. The two towers pictured on the album's cover are The Westin Seattle.
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Character
Character-led, spare, contemporary and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Austin Chronicle4/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- NME6/10
- Paste9.5/10
- Pitchfork8.9/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Spin8/10
- The Village VoiceA−
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Tracks
- 1Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine6:53
- 2Heart Cooks Brain4:03
- 3Convenient Parking4:08
- 4Lounge (Closing Time)7:04
- 5Jesus Christ Was an Only Child2:36
- 6Doin’ the Cockroach4:19
- 7Cowboy Dan6:15
- 8Trailer Trash5:50
- 9Out of Gas2:31
- 10Long Distance Drunk3:43
- 11Shit Luck2:23
- 12Truckers Atlas10:58
- 13Polar Opposites3:30
- 14Bankrupt on Selling2:54
- 15Styrofoam Boots / It’s All Nice on Ice, Alright6:53
15 tracks, 74 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Modest Mouse
- Label
- Up Records
- Released
- November 18, 1997
- Type
- Album
- Format
- HDCD
- Country
- US
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