The Lonesome Crowded West

The Lonesome Crowded West
Studio album by Modest Mouse
Released	November 18, 1997
Recorded	May 22 – June 7, 1997
Studio	Moon Studios (Olympia) Avast Studios and Jon & Stu's (Seattle)
Genre	Indie rock[1]
Length	73:58 (Standard) 78:02 (LP)
Label	Up
Producer	Calvin Johnson Isaac Brock Scott Swayze
Modest Mouse chronology
The Fruit That Ate Itself (1997) The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) Night on the Sun (1999)
Singles from The Lonesome Crowded West
"Heart Cooks Brain" Released: July 2, 1999

The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on November 18, 1997, by Up Records. The two towers pictured on the album's cover are The Westin Seattle.^[2]

The Lonesome Crowded West received positive reviews from critics, and appeared on several lists of the best albums of the 1990s. The album was reissued by Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace label in 2014, along with Modest Mouse's 1996 debut This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About.