'Then his jaw was wired shut for two or three months.' The recording for the album took 5 months, beginning in July 1999 and running until November 1999. 'It laid him up in the hospital for a week,' Deck says.

'In the middle of recording, Brock was attacked and got his jaw broken by a group of ruffians hanging out at a park across the street from where the band were staying in Chicago. It wasn't so much that he was mixing, but he could look at a song, understand the musical event that he wanted to make happen, understand the tools at his disposal, relate it in a way that I could understand, and make it happen pretty quickly. Deck said of Brock's involvement that, 'By the end of making the record, he was able to mastermind some cool maneuvers with plug-ins and Pro Tools. Though Deck was mostly producing under Perishable Records at the time, and the studio was built mostly for Perishable projects, Deck had no problems producing under Epic Records.ĭespite being under a major label the band 'remains largely self-managed and still drive themselves across the country on tour, 'and Brock was fairly involved in the mixing process. When Modest Mouse band members arrived for the recording, the studio was not completely finished. 'The album was produced by, who first met the band on a concert in Detroit, 'We ended up on a bill together at The Magic Stick in Detroit, and we got along really well, we hung out till the end of the night-and maybe consumed a fair amount of beer together.' Deck and Brock fell out of touch shortly thereafter, but reconnected a few years later, when Brock invited Califone (which included several members of Deck's band Red Red Meat) to hit the road as Modest Mouse's opening act.The album was the first project to be recorded in Clava Studios in Chicago. We spent more time getting crazy sounds than making things sound polished. Despite the fans' common concern that the switch to a major record label would change the band's unique sound, Isaac Brock assured fans that this would not be the case, 'I don't think the new album is at all overpolished or anything. Contents.Production The album was the band's first released by a major record label, being issued on Epic Records.

It was also hailed for being an expansion of the band's sound, much due to their new major label budget as well as the production of. The album's title is taken from the opening scene of the 1982 film, where the main character reads a newspaper headlined 'Farming the Oceans, and.' The Moon & Antarctica peaked at number 120 on the US, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised its subject matter and frontman 's introspective lyrics and sound. 2004 reissueThe Moon & Antarctica is the third by American band, released on June 13, 2000.

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