Judy - Fin and gone?

Modest Mouse's Eric Judy has, apparently, been taking some unaccounted time out, with Pitchfork suggesting he might not have been sighted with the band in performance since April 21st:

[H]e did not appear on the band's May 1 performance on "Late Night with David Letterman". One reader states Judy missed the May 6 show in Birmingham; another indicates Judy's bass duties at multiple recent gigs have fallen to Modest Mouse multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso and a member of opening act Love as Laughter.

His early absence was explained away as illness; the band's publicist assures Pitchfork that he's "fine", which would suggest that maybe he isn't ill. Indie soothsayers are killing chickens even as we speak (accounting for squeals of "I've got blood on my Pastels t-shirt" coming from backyards across the Western world) but nobody seems quite sure what's happening.