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Modest Mouse
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When “Float On” became Modest Mouse’s first #1 hit and one of the biggest modern rock songs of 2004, many new fans assumed they were some sort of fluke success story — a byproduct of the increasingly blurry line between indie and mainstream rock. If only things were that simple. Modest Mouse’s first single actually dropped a decade earlier, and as the band’s self-produced demo (see: the slow, solemn build of “Broke”) proves, their songwriting was rock-solid even back then. With that in mind, our [i]Modest Mouse[/i] Essentials makes sense of every last EP, from the brassy outbursts of “King Rat” to the cruise-controlled chords of “Night On the Sun.” Not to mention fan favorites like the frenzied funk of “Fly Trapped In a Jar,” the manic melodies of “Ocean Breathes Salty,” and the slick new-wave nods of “The View.”