2/9/2024 0 Comments Modest mouse im still here“I attract crazy, apparently,” he shrugs. The 45-year-old indie icon certainly has grounds for paranoia: he has had two undeniably real stalkers imprisoned in recent years (one for burning the security cameras at his home in Portland, Oregon). With, like, forensic audio shit, we were able to get some of these things where it’s like, ‘Isaac Brock! You will obey our commands!’ – corny shit like that.” It’s like a microwave attack.”īrock doesn’t know who’s trying to intercept his thoughts, but thinks it might be related to the fact that he was previously ‘gangstalked’, whereby an unspecified group of people follow your every move: “People would walk by my car, point at it and shit and then I’d get followed throughout the day by same the people.”Īs part of the battle against these unknown forces, Brock purchased a hyper-sensitive scientific microphone designed by the Japanese company Sanken to capture snails’ heartbeats: “I wanted to record blank rooms where nothing was going on so that I could see if any of this fuckin’ information – like the thing where it feels like somebody is using my head like a cellphone – was audible. The binaural beats, it seems, help to ward off would-be infiltrators: “If I feel like they’ve turned up the knob… I put on and they bring my focus back down. Why? “We’re lookin’ into this – there’s actually professional people workin’ with me on this – but basically someone is fuckin’ usin’ my head like a fuckin’ cellphone…” Brock says, his trademark lisp subtle but distinctive. The headphones, it transpires, are primed to pump out “binaural beats” – meditative, ghostly sounds – that can “play like gamma rays”. READ MORE: Modest Mouse – ‘The Golden Casket’ review: the spiritual sequel to their breakout hit The Modest Mouse frontman, video calling NME from an AirBnb in Topanga Canyon, where he’s working on new material with producer Jacknife Lee, has a pair of huge headphones plonked on his bedhead (it’s 11am in California) and, before explaining why, deadpans: “This section we’ll call ‘tinfoil hat’. Isaac Brock is in full paranoid rockstar mode.
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