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For you Modest Mouse collectors out there, we have a few reissues for you to add to the pile. The Portland-based indie rockers will reissue two early works on their own Glacial Pace Recordings on CD, vinyl and digital formats.

The two titles, to be reissued November 9, are The Fruit That Ate Itself, the band’s third EP released in 1997 and Sad Sappy Sucker, the band’s first recordings from 1995 (some of which were released on the band’s debut EP, 1995’s Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?). The proper album went unreleased until 2001, with a bunch of tracks added from frontman Isaac Brock’s answering machine. (The idea was people would call him up and hear a different song every time.) Both were originally released on K Records.

These releases follow a vinyl release of The Moon and Antarctica (2000), the band’s first release for Epic Records, back in August.

Ordering info and track lists are after the jump.

Modest Mouse, The Fruit That Ate Itself (originally released as K Records LP 63, 1997)

1. Sunspots
2. The Waydown
3. Fruit
4. Dirty Fingernails
5. Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat
6. The Fruit That Ate Itself
7. Way Down
8. Summer
9. Karma’s Payment

Modest Mouse, Sad Sappy Sucker (originally released as K Records LP 131, 2001)

1. Worms vs. Birds
2. Four Fingered Fisherman
3. Wagon Ride Return
4. Classy Plastic Lumber
5. From Point A to Point B (∞)
6. Path of Least Resistance
7. It Always Rains on a Picnic
8. Dukes Up
9. Think Long
10. Every Penny Fed Car
11. Mice Eat Cheese
12. Race Car Grin You Ain’t No Landmark
13. Red Hand Case
14. Secret Agent X-9
15. Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?
16. Call to Dial a Song
17. 5-4-3-2-1 Lispoff
18. Woodgrain
19. BMX Crash
20. Sucker Bet
21. Black Blood & Old Newagers
22. SWY
23. Austral Opithecus
24. Sin Gun Chaser

Tracks 1-2 and 10 originally released as 7″ single (Hit or Miss HOM101, 1997)
Tracks 7-8, 15 and 17-18 originally released as Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? EP (K Records IPU58, 1995)