I know very a little about Modest Mouse, but here are the few things I know:

1.) I don't like Modest Mouse. For the most part their music simply annoys me. I remember the first time I heard Dance Hall, I woke up three hours later covered in vomit. Not sure if it was mine. Perhaps some random passerby heard it, became enraged, knocked me out, and then vomited on me in retaliation for forcing such music upon him.

2.) They're a bunch of meth addicts, which I've heard from a large enough group of people to accept it as fact. I'm pretty sure this is why all their songs sound like they were written by meth addicts, (kind of like how Green Day's Insomniac sounds like it was written by meth addicts). This is probably why everyone I know who listens to Modest Mouse are either meth addicts or completely ridiculous hipsters who should die.

3.) They're a completely 100% mainstream major label "indie band". Does that mean their music inherently sucks? I don't know. I feel kind of like it does. Isn't Arcade Fire all xbox huge now, too? What can we do? I guess we have no choice, we must nuke from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

4.) Bukowski writes great novels but his poetry is largely ridiculous and only entertaining when being read drunkenly by him in front of rowdy college students, and Kerouac's On The Road was largely unreadable past the first couple pages. Perhaps all great major label artists are meth or shoe addicts.