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  • Summary: Mice Parade is the solo moniker adopted by Adam Pierce (drummer for the east coast indie rock band The Swirlies) for his forays into electronica and post-rock. Although he has expanded Mice Parade into a full-band effort on some previous releases, Pierce recorded this fourth studio LP mainlyMice Parade is the solo moniker adopted by Adam Pierce (drummer for the east coast indie rock band The Swirlies) for his forays into electronica and post-rock. Although he has expanded Mice Parade into a full-band effort on some previous releases, Pierce recorded this fourth studio LP mainly on his own. Collapse
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
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  1. A series of serene and sensuous treasures rich in texture and laden with rapturous instrumental hooks.
  2. If you enjoy the ear-perkingly dense textures of friendlier experimental stuff like Four Tet and Fridge's Happiness LP, then you can't go wrong here.
  3. Urb
    80
    Imagine Four Tet with a band instead of a laptop and you're getting close. [Jan 2004, p.78]
  4. This is music just about anyone can enjoy, either for close listening or simply ambient sound.
  5. It feels more like a transitional album than the next level for the group.
  6. On Obrigado Saudade, Pierce picks up where he left off on his last few Bubblecore releases, melding post-rock, world music and analog electronics into rich, earthy shapes.
  7. Ultimately, Mice Parade oscillate between making loose, open-ended techno-twinged acoustic music that's truly intriguing and flailing around in a sleepy, directionless mess of dullery.

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