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Isaac Brock hauled Modest Mouse's bayou-porch racket into the mainstream without sanding off a single splinter — horns collide with strings, growls give way to gang shouts, and Float On turned a band built on dread into an unlikely optimism machine.
Critics who had followed the band through two scrappy masterpieces mostly cheered the leap; the Grammy nominations and year-end list placements made it the rare indie crossover the tastemakers didn't punish for succeeding.