Album Rating: 3.5

Hot take: "Transmitting Receiving" is the best song here and at least a 4.5

Album Rating: 2.5

🤢🤢🤮

Album Rating: 2.5

whoa that is a pretty hot take. that song sounds more like total nonsense to me

Album Rating: 4.0

i listened to this new one a bunch and now the effect has been that random Good News For Bad News choruses and verses keep entering my mind and i start singing lines from that album.

Album Rating: 3.5

@smash I mean lyrically it's basically a stream of consciousness with no logic whatsoever but Isaac somehow manages to make that approach work like a charm - it feels hypnotic if I'm in the right mood. And the atmosphere and melody of the chorus just ~hit right~ for want of a better phrase.

Album Rating: 3.0

Hot take: Transmitted Receiving is the worst song Modest Mouse has released since 1994.

Probably a couple other tunes here that could make a solid run at that title, but yeah Transmitting is no bueno

Transmitting is fine lmao, it's not even bad, just kinda average. There are WAY WAY worse and decidedly more obnoxious songs here and on Strangers

Album Rating: 3.0

I'd take Transmitting over the more 'rockin' ones like walking and running and fuck a spider any day

Album Rating: 2.5

Transmitting is cool

Album Rating: 1.5

walking and running and spider for worst [2] those songs are painful



transmitting is incoherent gibberish but its too boring to be as bothersome

Album Rating: 3.5

"Spider" and "Leave a Light On" for me



The latter is particularly frustrating because musically it has a lot of promise, really good pop instrumental... and then Isaac shits all over it



"Walking and Running" isn't a highlight but I'd rate it a notch above those two. Bit jarring how the chorus sounds almost nothing like Isaac though

Album Rating: 4.0

I think if they'd dropped Walking and Running, Transmitting, and Spider from the tracklist and released it as-is otherwise, the flow would be much better and possibly also the reception from listeners.

Okay tbh yall are right spider is easily the worst thing here, somehow painfully obnoxious while also being instantly forgettable

Album Rating: 1.5

idk why i listened to this again its definitely gotten worse with each listen. transmitting in particular is worse than i remembered



at least wooden soldiers is a genuinely great song

Album Rating: 4.5

never fuck a spider on the fly

never fuck a spider on the fly might be my fav here. annoying af in a maybe good way, similar to the ever unloved steam engenius

Album Rating: 2.5

never thought I'd see the day when something is called "annoying in a good way", but here we are

it's basically everything isaac brock has done from good news onwards tbh

Never Fuck a Spider is decent despite some unbearable moments. Walking and Running, opener and Light are absolutely the worst here