The Fruit That Ate Itself

by Modest Mouse

The Fruit That Ate Itself cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 13 May 1997
  • Label: K
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 20:46
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Eric Judy, Jeremiah Green, Isaac Brock

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded immediately following their widely acclaimed debut album, this release embraces a distinctly rough, experimental edge guided heavily by the lo-fi ethos of K Records. The erratic tracks blend the band's signature angular guitar harmonics with bizarre tape manipulation and Isaac Brock's characteristically anxious, strained vocal performances. It remains a fascinating, deeply quirky artifact from the band's hyper-prolific early era in the Pacific Northwest.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, lo-fi, drugs

Tracklist

  1. Sunspots (0:38)
  2. The Waydown (2:30)
  3. Fruit (0:52)
  4. Dirty Fingernails (3:20)
  5. Sunspots In The House Of The Late (2:42)
  6. The Fruit That Ate Itself (3:17)
  7. Way Down (0:43)
  8. Summer (3:12)
  9. Karma's Payment (3:28)

Credits

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