Modest Mouse working with BigBoi on new album
Thu 28th Apr, 2011 in International News
Modest Mouse will soon be in Australia as part of the Splendour in the Grass lineup but at the moment they’re hard at work on the follow up to 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank album. That record featured ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, but the new album is set to include an even more unlikely musical collaboration.
Outkast rapper Big Boi has confirmed on Twitter that he has “Been camped out in the Lab with Modest Mouse all week, workin on the new mouse LP coolest cats ever. Long Live The Funk.”
Big Boi and and producer Chris Carmouche, who won a Grammy for his work on the Outkast double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, are both working on the record, which follows hot on the heals of the band’s recent foray into hip-hop courtesy of a sample on Lupe Fiasco’s recent The Show Goes On single.
There’s no word yet on what Big Boi’s role on the album actually involves (producing, performing, or both?) but this is most definitely a curious development.
Sadly Big Boi’s Australian tour is a month after Splendour almost certainly crushing our chances of seeing this unlikely collaboration on stage.
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