Modest Mouse

Formerly signed to Matador and fronted by eccentric singer Issac Brock, Modest Mouse finally broke into the American mainstream in spring 2004 with the hit album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and massive airplay single (plus featuring on a car advert can't have damaged it too much) 'Float On'.

Albums to date:

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
The Fruit That Ate Itself(1997)
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Sad Sappy Sucker (2001)
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)

Photograph by Autumn de Wilde from the band's MySpace page, here.