Out 5th June on Glacial Pace Recordings / Virgin Music Group.
Share new song, ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’.
Modest Mouse have today announced details of their first new album in five years, and after over two decades on Epic Records, their first album on Glacial Pace Recordings, the longtime imprint of lead singer Isaac Brock.
An Eraser And A Maze will be released on Friday 5th June, 2026 and was produced by Brock with additional production by Jackknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Suzy Shinn (Weezer, panic at the disco), and Justin Raisin (Charli xcx, Kim Gordon, Lil Yachty).
They have also today shared the bombastic opening track, ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’, with an anthemic chorus that’ll have you singing loudly about navigating a manipulative, self-destructive world.
Listen to ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’ HERE.
They previously released the single ‘Look How Far’, which also features on the new album.
The track listing of An Eraser And A Maze is as follows:
1. Picking Dragon’s Pockets
2. Remember Yourself
3. Life’s A Dream
4. Third Side Of The Moon
5. Dogbed in Heaven/Give It A Skeleton
6. Interlude
7. I Can’t Talk Right Now
8. Speak ‘N Spell (Or Not)
9. Rotten Fruit (feat. Justin Raisin)
10. Knocked Down By Waves
11. Absolutely Necessary Never
12. Song About Nothing
13. Stoner Party
14. Look How Far
15. Impossible Somedays
An Eraser And A Maze, released on CD and 2LPs with exclusive vinyl variants, is available for pre-save and pre-order HERE.
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There’s a theory in physics — the idea that past, present, and future all exist simultaneously, and that the passage of time itself is an illusion. It’s also the best way to understand An Eraser and a Maze, because you can hear every era of Modest Mouse coexisting at once on it. It might mark the end of a timeline. Or the start of one. Or maybe both at once. Modest Mouse began working on this collection of songs immediately following 2021’s The Golden Casket. With six songs that could have formed an EP, he considered releasing them as his side project, Ugly Casanova, but ultimately decided to feature the expanded collection on the band’s Glacial Pace Recordings.
As for the thematic glue that holds it all together, while Brock is no fan of overexplaining or overintellectualizing a record, what he will allow: With 2021’s The Golden Casket, he was trying to manufacture post-pandemic silver linings. “For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen. 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 …”
“Thoughts, emotions, feelings, all that stuff … you’re like the soup, and it’s not always easy to pick out the ingredients. I don’t dwell on things much. I don’t grieve much. I’m not sure I’m a person. I feel like I should have more feelings than I do. But then, you know, I’ll sing stuff. And I’m like, Oh, there it is. Oh — it’s in there.”
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