Modest Mouse haven't been "new" for about ten years. What albums have you listened to? I really can't imagine anyone listening to more than one album by MM and then saying all their songs sound the same and they use all the same riRAB. Even on, say, Moon & Antarctica their sound changes drastically throughout the course of the whole album.
The Mars Volta are a boring, God awful excuse for "experimental" music. And I assume you're an asshole if you decide to pigeonhole me just because I don't like a pair of mediocre banRAB.
I don't even read Pitchfork, and even if I did so what? Pitchfork doesn't decide what I listen to.
And saying you hate Pitchfork and everyone who reaRAB it is just as closeminded as reading Pitchfork and listening to whatever it says.