The house that Mouse built
No One’s First kicks off with radio-bait “Satellite Skin”, a
country-tinged rocker that plays on the point-counterpoint between Isaac
Brock’s quavering vocals and a plodding guitar riff. Though the track lacks the
immediacy of previous singles, the muted pace offers space for
melancholic rumination that resolves into devastating release: “Just like being
my own solar system / doing good things but then totally eclipse them / oh
what’s the use oh what the hell”. Brock further levies his barbaric yawp on the manic Good
News throwback “Guilty Cocker Spaniels” and
fuzzed-out space jam “History Sticks to Your Feet”, asking existential
questions and offering ripostes of piercing ennui in the same breath.