Modest Mouse Drummer Jeremiah Green Dies at 45 - Pitchfork

Jeremiah Green, the longtime Modest Mouse drummer, has died, the set announced. The set had recently disclosed that Green was undergoing attraction for cancer. Jeremiah Green was 45 years old.

Green co-founded Modest Mouse with frontman Isaac Brock and bassist Eric Judy successful Washington successful the aboriginal 1990s. As the set was conscionable getting started, helium besides performed with the section groups Satisfact and Red Stars Theory. The archetypal Modest Mouse album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, came retired successful 1996, and is present considered a instrumentality favourite and cult classic. In a 2014 retrospective reappraisal for Pitchfork, Brian Howe wrote, “From the start, Modest Mouse were instantly recognizable: Judy’s ropy bass and Green’s drumming, heaving from a caveman bash to a disco skip, are indispensable to the rangy, volatile sound.”

Modest Mouse’s sophomore album, The Lonesome Crowded West, brought much attraction to the Washingtonians, and the radical toured for its 25th anniversary successful 2022. Owing to the record’s success, Modest Mouse moved from the Seattle indie Up Records to large statement Epic, which issued 2000’s The Moon & Antarctica. Another triumph, it became the band’s archetypal medium to illustration connected the Billboard 200 chart, debuting and peaking astatine No. 120. The grounds has besides been certified gold by the RIAA.

The band’s 4th album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, was adjacent much palmy and included the iconic opus “Float On,” but the LP did not diagnostic Green, who temporarily near Modest Mouse successful 2003 for what has been described arsenic “a tense breakdown.” Green’s lack informed the album’s direction, however, and helium was portion of the inspiration for the deed single, too, arsenic Isaac Brock elaborate successful a 2004 interrogation with The A.V. Club. Years later, successful a 2021 interrogation with NME, Green reflected connected his hiatus from Modest Mouse:

I felt similar thing atrocious came into me—not bad, but similar a spirit…. I started acting truly rebellious.… I was retired for trouble. I was truly anti-war and if [other people] weren’t down, I would conscionable spell nuts—weird revolutionary benignant stuff. I was like, ‘I’m gonna bash thing astir this Afghanistan war! It’s bullshit!’