On March 20, 2007, “Epic” label released “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”, the fifth Modest Mouse studio album. It was recorded 2005 – 2006, at “Sweet Tea Studio” in Oxford, MS, “Audible Alchemy” in Portland, OR, and was produced by Dennis Herring.
Personnel:
- Isaac Brock – lead vocals, guitar, art direction
- Johnny Marr – guitar
- Eric Judy – bass
- Jeremiah Green – drums, percussion
- Tom Peloso – vocals, bass, piano, trumpet, tuba, fiddle, synthesizer
- Joe Plummer – drums, percussion
- Clay Jones – acoustic guitar, shaker, programming
- Dennis Herring – claps, stomps, Rhodes, pump organ, backing vocals, mixing
- Kyle “Slick” Johnson – programming
- Naheed Simjee – backing vocals, claps, stomps
- James Mercer- backing vocals
- Joe Zook – engineer, mixing
- Clay Jones – engineer
- Tom Queyja, Rob Cooper – assistant
- Kyle “Slick” Johnson, Reto Peter, Tom Queyja – additional engineering
- Howie Weinberg– mastering
- Christian Helms – art direction, design
- Nahjeed Simjee – art direction
- Christian Helms, Geoff Peyeto at The Decoder Ring – design
- David Ellis, Casey Burns – booklet interior illustrations
Track listing:
All lyrics by Isaac Brock; all music by Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Eric Judy, Tom Peloso and Joe Plummer.
- March into the Sea
- Dashboard
- Fire It Up
- Florida
- Parting of the Sensory
- Missed the Boat
- We’ve Got Everything
- Fly Trapped in a Jar
- Education
- Little Motel
- Steam Engenius
- Spitting Venom
- People as Places as People
- Invisible
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