Blog: PopMatters

"Bankrupt on Selling" manages its melancholy with an expert hand, making it one of the most moving tracks on an album full of full-steam heartwrenchers. "Bankrupt on Selling" is a rare breed in Modest Mouse's gruff bestiary: an acoustic ballad. The Lonesome Crowded West previously had the acoustic guitar take the forefront on "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child", but that track is just as raw and seething as the most plugged-in material on this record. "Bankrupt on Selling", on the other hand, takes things into definitively different territory. Isaac Brock has written a few of these in his [...]