Mdou Moctar "Ilana (The Creator)" Record Store Day 2024 Modest Mouse present their anxiously

Modest Mouse present their anxiously awaited seventh full-length

The track is their most popular hit to date and was their first big hit

but they're finally comfortable embracing-and coalescing-every aspect of their career

collage-like lens

Royal was the perfect site for this album

Mdou Moctar "Ilana (The Creator)" Record Store Day 2024 Modest Mouse present their anxiouslyBlistering and hypnotic, 'Ilana (The Creator)' (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar hero's first album recorded with a live rock band and perfectly captures the heavy, psychedelic sound part Tuareg desert blues, part ZZ Top that the quartet had honed through endless touring and which would come to explosive fruition on 'Afrique Victime' (2021) and 'Funeral For Justice' (2024). 'Ilana' was the first