“One of the greatest perils of being in an oddball indie band is, paradoxically, having a hit record. Kings of Leon spent more than a decade slagging off, and then coming to terms with, their Yates-at-chucking-out-time banger ‘Sex On Fire’. Portland supremos Modest Mouse, meanwhile, accidentally blasted themselves into the stratosphere with 2004’s ‘Float On’ – their last album, 2015’s oddly remote,”
