Modest Mouse announces new album, "An Eraser and a Maze" and a Fall Tour including return to Orlando
- Alastair Mac
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Modest Mouse are on course for a busy 2026, announcing the band's first independent release in nearly 30 years, together with a massive headling fall tour.
After more than two decades signed to Epic Records, Modest Mouse have revealed the band’s first independent release since 1997’s The Lonesome Crowded West and the follow-up to their 2021 album The Golden Casket.
The new album, An Eraser and a Maze is released on June 5 via frontman Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace Recordings. The first single from the album, “Look How Far,” was released back in March, with a second single, “Picking Dragon’s Pockets,” newly released.
Originally conceived as an EP, Brock decided to expand it into Modest Mouse’s eighth studio album. “For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen,” he said in a statement. “Even though every goddamn musician says that when they put out a record. I mean, go ahead and listen to the three-minute mark of any interview between a musician and Terry Gross …”
in addition to the new album, Modest Mouse have expanded their upcoming North American tour with new dates throughout September and October.
The expansive North American trek will see the band perform at festivals and headline shows throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Kicking off in Spokane, WA on May 12, the 58 date tour includes three shows in Florida, September 16 in Clearwater, September 17 in St Augustine, with a return to Orlando on September 18, taking to the stage at House of Blues Orlando, before the tour winds up on October 23 in Sacramento, CA.
Tickets for the show at House of Blues Orlando on Friday, September 1t are on sale now.
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Modest Mouse have lived many lives—as feisty lo-fi heroes, beloved indie oddballs, unlikely chart-toppers and respected rock statesmen. It’s a reflection of frontman Isaac Brock’s raw, restless, somewhat unhinged spirit: he’s remained the only consistent member throughout the band’s existence since forming as a trio in 1992 in Washington.
Modest Mouse were influential from the start, rising from the hallowed DIY grounds of Calvin Johnson’s K Records. In the ‘90s, they released several EPs and two albums that balanced dark, sprawling, inward-looking indie with Pixies-inspired pop and raucous, tantrum-throwing rock—all informed by Brock’s panoramic view of existential dread.
The band launched into the 21st century with a major-label deal and 2000’s The Moon & Antarctica, an expansive, mercurial collection of warped strings and keys and layers upon layers of guitars that both assuage and assault. They’d polish up that sound even more for 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which holds more than a few heady gems, including hit single “Float On”, a perfect representation of Modest Mouse’s manic guitar pop masquerading as a sunny, if not sardonic, sing-along.
The bigger they got, the brassier the hooks became, with help from former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and an ever-evolving lineup. Brock—still spitting out his best neurotic, nihilistic, quote-worthy lines—remains the harried heart of it all, keeping Modest Mouse as wondrously weird as ever.
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