Since 2004, Modest Mouse have been one of the most popular bands in mainstream Rock music and I still find it a tad strange because Modest Mouse have always been one of those strangely brilliant, entirely original and outright quirky bands that you wouldn't necessarily expect the spoon fed, watered down masses to latch onto. The two albums that led them to their heightened popularity, Good News For People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank are the inspiration for this new mini album entitled No One's First and You're Next, a collection of re-worked tunes from both of those sessions that were left off their respected albums for one reason or another.

Surprisingly enough, these songs all lumped together make quite a solid album and you'd never guess that these were leftovers and/or rejects from other sessions that didn't quite make the cut. First single "Satellite Skin" is so good in fact that it makes you wonder why Brock and company didn't see fit to hold it the same pantheon that mega hits "Hold On" and "Dashboard" were held up to. Second single "Autumn Beds" is a delightful, banjo-led stroll that is fun to bob along to and tracks such as "Perpetual Motion Machine" and "King Rat" show that there were even more songs from Modest Mouse's collaboration with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band back on Good News than we were led to believe. When a band has throwaways this good it really goes to show that pound for pound Modest Mouse, along with Wilco and Radiohead may arguably be one of the most consistently rewarding bands of this decade.