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Apr 17, 2013As an album Candela has everything: it's energetic and adventurous but these adjectives are synonymous with Mice Parade’s constant journeying through music.
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Jan 29, 2013Candela works well as an entry point into Pierce's earlier music as well as a summation of how artfully he blends electronic, indie, and global influences.
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Feb 21, 2013Although Mice Parade is typically regarded as a solo project of Pierce, it is clear the concept of community compels him. And this is where his biggest strength lies.
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Feb 12, 2013Candela is loaded with the kind of bracing, unpredictable pop music that a listener can find something new in again and again.
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Jan 29, 2013Though things work best when Pierce allows enough space amidst the music for the actual songs to flourish, even the jostling of the overcrowded bits is wonderful and energetic.
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Feb 5, 2013As much as Mice Parade’s previous releases seemed to be insular statements, Candela is simply stretched too thin, with too little of Pierce himself in the music.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2013Though Candela never fully eludes to Pierce's studied background, the foundations are strong enough for him to go wild with the decorations. [May 2013, p.106]
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MojoApr 10, 2013Pierce's lyrics remain largely opaque, and the atypically lumpen Warm Hand In Narnia sounds unsettlingly like Snow Patrol, but to cavil feels churlish when elsewhere such vivacious invention pervades. [May 2013, p.86]
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UncutMar 29, 2013Afropop sparkle to jazzy bounce and shoe gaze shimmer, but too often these exotic ingredients feel like undigested dilettante dabblings. [May 2013, p.74]
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2013The New York collective continues to produce intelligent music with its seventh album. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.103]
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Mar 20, 2013Candela makes for an, at times unpleasant, but ultimately forgettable listen.
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Mar 19, 2013Despite its flaws, it can at times be an unexpected and stunning trip.
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Jan 29, 2013Candela doesn't represent Mice Parade's most memorable outing, but it does showcase a willingness to expand the expectations surrounding their sound.
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Jan 29, 2013The breezy, rhythmically complex melting-pot approach still plays a pretty big role on Candela, Mice Parade's eighth album, but more than ever, Pierce seems to have a vested interest in letting some graceful whooshes of shoegazer noise take over where necessary.
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Feb 5, 2013Candela has some shining moments but, overall, is an album that teases the palette instead of really satisfying.
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Jan 29, 2013More often than not, however, Mice Parade pushes these songs down paths that don't fit.