Bands that take on influences from Modest Mouse tend to sound more lost to me than bands drawing from, say, Vampire Weekend or Death Cab for Cutie. If you are talented and you really want to sound like Vampire Weekend or Death Cab, well, you can. But no one can fully capture that Modest Mouse sound, which makes bands like Sioux Falls- which draws some influence from that infamous shack in Issaquah - sound forever searching, lost in the complexities of the guitar. In a good way, if you can believe it. What's most striking about Sioux Falls, despite clearly being a band still in the process of finding itself, is they've managed to land in a spot that indicates a sure-footed confidence beyond their years together. As Sioux Falls encounters more sounds on its current tour down the coast, who's to say what shape the band will ultimately form? It's the searching that matters. 

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on Sioux Falls in the Music section at weeklyvolcano.com.

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