Modest Mouse Moon & Antarctica 2xLP 1st Pressing Built to Spill

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This is a used copy of  Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica double LP from Epic Records.  This copy is from the original first pressing of the album.  Inner sleeves are slightly warped due to humidity, but the records are in great shape. Just normal, light wear. Only played a few times. This is the 1st pressing. There is brownish discoloration along the edge of the opening of the cover

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Release Date:  June 13, 2000

Track List:

A1                   3rd Planet

A2                   Gravity Rides Everything      

A3                   Dark Center Of The Universe            

A4                   Perfect Disguise

B1                   Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes   

B2                   A Different City

B3                   The Cold Part

B4                   Alone Down There    

C1                   The Stars Are Projectors        

C2                   Wild Packs Of Family Dogs

C3                   Paper Thin Walls

D1                   I Came As A Rat       

D2                   Lives

D3                   Life Like Weeds        

D4                   What People Are Made Of

Review from allmusic.com:

Modest Mouse's Epic debut, The Moon & Antarctica, finds them strangely subdued, focusing on mortality as well as the moody, acoustic side of their music and downplaying the edgy rock that helped make them indie stars. Not that their first major-label release sounds like a sellout -- actually, the slight sheen of Brian Deck's production enhances the album's introspective tone -- but occasionally The Moon & Antarctica's melancholy becomes ponderous. Unfortunately, the album's middle stretch contains three such songs, "The Cold Part," "Alone Down There," and "The Stars Are Projectors," which tend to blur together into one 17-minute-long piece that bogs down the album's momentum. Individually, each of these songs is sweeping and haunting in its own right, but grouping them together blunts their impact. However, this trilogy does provide a sharp contrast to, as well as a bridge across, The Moon & Antarctica's more vibrant beginning and end. Though it explores death and the afterlife, The Moon & Antarctica's liveliest moments are its most effective. "3rd Planet"'s simple, ramshackle melody and strange, moving lyrics ("Your heart felt good"), the elastic guitars on "Gravity Rides Everything," and the angular, jumpy "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" and "A Different City" get the album off to a strong start, while the fresh, unaffected "Wild Packs of Family Dogs," "Paper Thin Walls," and "Lives" bring it to an atmospheric, affecting peak before "What People Are Made Of" closes the album with a climactic burst of noise. Their most cohesive collection of songs to date, The Moon & Antarctica is an impressive, if flawed, map of Modest Mouse's ambitions and fears.