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title: "Modest Mouse Premiere Video For ‘Lampshades On Fire’"
url: https://altwire.net/modest-mouse-lampshades-on-fire/
author: "Altwire Staff"
published: 2015-03-23T02:28:57+00:00
updated: 2023-12-06T11:36:56+00:00
categories: ["News"]
tags: ["Alternative", "Indie", "Modest Mouse"]
source: "AltWire (altwire.net)"
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# Modest Mouse Premiere Video For ‘Lampshades On Fire’

*By Altwire Staff · March 22, 2015*

Modest Mouse's *Strangers To Ourselves* dropped this past Tuesday, after an eight year break since their last record *We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank*. Having led up to its release with five songs, Modest Mouse have now released a music video for their first single, premiering *'Lampshades On Fire'* yesterday on VEVO.

Described as visceral and surreal, the video is directed by Jorge Torres-Torres featuring *Orange Is The New Black* actress Natasha Lyonne within the chaos. The seemingly random scenes of reckless abandon actually tie in with the song's frantic call of climate devastation; people creating havoc and then moving on to a new planet to do it all again.

*"We are absolutely fucked,"* Brock told [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/modest-mouse-on-the-chaotic-sessions-for-first-lp-in-eight-years-102291/2/) before its premiere. Watch the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he16ctlqAgU

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