Songfacts®:

• "Look How Far..." is Modest Mouse in full eye-roll mode, taking a long, unimpressed look at humanity and concluding, somewhere between a shrug and a smirk, that we've essentially been running on the spot since the invention of fire. Isaac Brock delivers the song like a man who's read the instruction manual for civilization and discovered it's mostly blank pages and coffee stains.
• Released on March 9, 2026, the track marked the band's first new music in five years, arriving after The Golden Casket and coinciding with the 30th anniversary of their debut, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About.
• Clocking in at under two minutes, the song doesn't so much arrive as burst through the door, say something cutting, and leave before anyone can argue. Its scrappy, caffeinated energy harks back to the band's earlier, less polished days, closer in spirit to their 1997 sophomore album, The Lonesome Crowded West, than their more meticulously assembled later work.
• "Look How Far..." was written by lead singer Isaac Brock, who also served as one of its producers, along with Suzy Shinn and Jacknife Lee.
  
  Suzy Shinn is a LA-based producer known for her work with Weezer and Panic! at the Disco. She and Brock worked on new material primarily in Portland, Oregon, between December 2024 and April 2025.
  
  Irish producer Jacknife Lee (real name Garret Lee) has credits with the likes of U2, R.E.M., the Killers, Weezer, and Snow Patrol. He previously worked with Modest Mouse on their 2021 album The Golden Casket, where he served as engineer, mixing engineer, producer, and programmer.
• On drums is Janet Weiss, formerly of Sleater-Kinney and a longtime member of Portland indie band Quasi. She steps into a role left vacant after the death of longtime Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green in 2022.