DoomsdaysCW<p>Excerpt from "Tragic Details About <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ModestMouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ModestMouse</span></a>" from 2023...</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsaacBrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsaacBrock</span></a> suffers from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoAnxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoAnxiety</span></a></p><p>"Isaac Brock has long been vehemently opposed to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/urbanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>urbanization</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DestructionOfNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DestructionOfNature</span></a>, and these have remained central lyrical themes going back to the band's earliest material (per Paste Magazine). As Healthline notes, such feelings of frustration towards environmentally destructive practices, anger at the seeming inevitability of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, and fear for the Earth's future are called eco-anxiety –- and Brock has been suffering from it for years.</p><p>"In Pitchfork's 2012 '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LonesomeCrowdedWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LonesomeCrowdedWest</span></a>' documentary, he described living in Washington State in the '90s as having a 'front-row seat to watching <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> disappearing and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UrbanSprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanSprawl</span></a> begin,' lamenting the constant clearing of natural places to make way for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StripMalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StripMalls</span></a>. In fact, he was still thinking about it in 2021 when he told Uproxx that his childhood home regularly flooded due to forest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/clearcutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clearcutting</span></a>.</p><p>"Many Modest Mouse songs center on shameless human destruction, with the 2015 hit '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LampshadesOnFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LampshadesOnFire</span></a>' -– in which Brock sings about mankind going to space to find a new planet after destroying Earth -– serving as a notable example. But in recent years, he's making an effort to focus on the positive, as evidenced by hopeful songs like 'The Sun Hasn't Left,' in which he sings, 'You're not wrong, things are a mess but there's still something left.' 'I found optimism where it actually existed because I needed it,' he told NME in 2021, adding, 'Y'know, I got three kids ... I don't think s***'s gonna get easier for everyone.' "</p><p>Read More: <a href="https://www.grunge.com/1159159/tragic-details-about-modest-mouse/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">grunge.com/1159159/tragic-deta</span><span class="invisible">ils-about-modest-mouse/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Songwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Songwriting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HopePunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HopePunk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestsAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestsAreLife</span></a></p>