Tell Me About Mice Parade

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I think I like the song by them that I heard about 15 minutes ago.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The name is an anagram of the guy doing it -- Adam Pierce. I've only heard one song (on 3WK) and I liked it. I think that was the one that used the Windows sound throughout (it's been many months since I heard it).

― nickn, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The guy from mice parade is also in the Dylan Group, a bass/vibraphone/drums based group. They remind me of mice parade but with live instruments.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i have 'the true meaning of boodley baye' but i've never really liked it that much, with the exception of Dasher, Prancer, Donner and Blitzen, which is kinda folky in a pat orchard/nick drake way, and sort of sits at odds with the jazzyness of the rest of the album

― gareth, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What I heard was kind of drum and bass oriented (but maybe "soft" drum and bass for people like me?) with some kind of a chorus.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mokoondi is a nice album. Repetitive, but the sounds and patterns are pretty. Mice Parade is Adam Pierce solo, and he's also in the Dylan Group (cool b/c they do "live" covers of electronic tracks and pull it off nicely) and runs the excellent Bubble Core label.

Even better than Mokoondi is Collaborations, which has some heaveny tracks w/ Mice Parade, Child's View (Nobukazu Takemura) and Aki Tsuyoko.

― Mark, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I bought All Roads Lead to Salzburg, and the beginning is mostly too sleepy for me. And the end just sounds like fusion, with a little "dance music" influence, but not really very differnt from the fusion I used to listen to and don't much like any more. My favorite parts are one track with folkish sounding vocals and another track that has some skitterish pseudo-drum-n-bass rhythms. I don't think I'm going to hold onto this though. I don't like the fact that I can kind of hear the artist saying, okay, we'll lay down this rhythm and now we'll put this other thing over it. Maybe that's an unreasonable criticism.

Ugh, this drumming is really annoying, too.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 11 December 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah Mice Parade stuff is very loop-based and not at all dynamic. I think it's nice for what it is but it only goes so far. The new one has some tracks w/ one of the women from Mum singing, also a track w/ Aki Tsuyuko, more of a song-oriented thing (but in the end not all that different.) Out in January I believe.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 11 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven years pass...

were they always this, uh, anodyne? for some reason i was expecting electronica and got lemonheads covers and what seems to be a tribute to the dullest indie rock of the last five years

― midiverb II program 49 (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I downloaded the new one, having only heard Mokoondi, and was a bit befuddled by it.

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Early stuff definitely came from the "Let's do what Tortoise does" era of post-rock. Haven't heard anything recent (like, the last 10 years), but I hear he's gone in a totally different direction.

― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link

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