Credit: Ben MoonThe eight-year gap between Modest Mouse albums appears to have been worth the wait. Strangers to Ourselves, the band's first album since 2007's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, has debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, with 77,000 units sold.
Strangers to Ourselves gives Modest Mouse their second consecutive top-three appearance on the Billboard 200. Prior to We Were Dead, which debuted at number one, Modest Mouse's highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 was 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which bowed at 18.
In other Modest Mouse news, frontman Isaac Brock has revealed the band's next album, a "companion" piece to Strangers to Ourselves, will feature Krist Novoselic. The Nirvana bassist was rumored to appear on Strangers to Ourselves, but his contribution never made the album.
"We ended up finishing tracking with one of [Novoselic's] songs that will end up on the next record. It fits the second piece, the companion piece to this record, a bit better," Brock tells HotPress.com, adding that Novoselic's contribution "sounds like a bunch of boulders falling down a mountain."
Brock also revealed the tentative title of the new album, which is set to be released next year.
"The title was just going to be Whatever. And the dumbest thing...I was going to misspell 'Whatever'. You know like, just have it be 'Whabever,'" Brock says. "I just wanted to go as dumb as f**king possible."
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