THE DAILY DOSE

For unexplainable reasons, I thought Mice Parade was in the same league as Aesop Rock. Sounds like a cool MC name anyway. I haven’t listened to previous outings but I like what I hear in his Bem-Vinda Vontade. 

From what I gather, it’s his most ”accessible” album (which usually means, poppier) to date. Which I think is a common sign for electronic artists when they’re on the verge of breaking out. Breaking out from lengthy mixes and in the case of Adam Pierce (aka Mice Parade), he sings a lot more.  

I think it’s even a mistake to label Mice Parade as electronic (the genre column remains blank in my iTunes), when electronic to me readily brings to mind something like, say, the soundtrack to the movie Swordfish. This one you don’t really dance to; you savor the rhythmn in your head and chill.  

Like Night Wave, the second track, which feature the breathy vocals of Mum’s Kristin Valdottir (I don’t know her but there’s something Sigur Ros-sy about her name). The next track, Passing and Galloping, starts with some dreamy sequence and later evolves into a stream of fuzzy guitars with a percussion layer.

The Days Before Fiction is another outstanding track, not only because it features a duet between Pierce and another female voice. It has a lengthy instrumental that starts in the middle of the song; from then on it’s a hypnotic mix of acoustic guitar strumming. Think shoegaze without the wah-wah of electric guitars.    

It would be difficult to file this album according to genre. It can fall under electronic, indie, acoustic or heck, even flamenco or bossanova. But however you classify his music, listening to Mice Parade is an experience by itself; you just savor it in your head and chill.

LINKS:

FatCat Records: Mice Parade 

MP3: Night Wave