Modest Mouse’s upcoming record We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is one of my most impatiently anticipated CDs of 2007, so I’m feeling all giddy about certain MP3 blogs’ offering up the band’s perfect new single, “Dashboard.” ThaBombShelter is into the uncharacteristically upbeat mood of the track, noting that “it’s like the band actually realized the sun does shine and that the creaky, damp darkness that pervaded their earlier releases isn’t how the world has to be.” The band now features ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, “who shows his new touch with Washington’s finest,” says Obscure Sounds. And Blogs Are For Dogs has even included We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank on its future-predicting “Best Albums of 2007” list, since “Johnny Marr’s debut with the band only figures to expand on the success” of their last record, the fantastic Good News For People Who Love Bad News.