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Modest Mouse could easily be mistaken for indie-rock also-rans — they look like small-town misfits and usually sound like that, too, between their detuned guitars and unpretentious Pavement affect. But there's some mystery in their equation that sets this Issaquah, Washington, band apart: They make a peculiar brand of existential folk poetry, one that combines […]

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