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Mice Parade
- Record Label: Fat Cat Records
- Release Date: Sep 14, 2010
- Artist(s): Rob King, Marc Wolf, Adam Pierce, Jeremy Backofen
- Summary: The New York City band led by Adam Pierce releases its seventh album.
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- Record Label: Fat Cat Records
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, IDM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 11
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Mixed: 1 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Oct 21, 2010What it Means to Be Left-Handed is just that: a diverse assortment of refreshing new music from a band that has already developed and progressed their chops. It's a joyful occasion and for Mice Parade; a loud celebration down the street, rodents and all.
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Oct 21, 2010What It Means to Be Left-Handed shows Pierce and company continuing to embrace a variety of artistic impulses that become their own enjoyable interpretations.
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UncutDec 20, 2010Just when you think you've got the measure of Pierce's winsome tropicalia, he pitches another delightful curveball: a curiously faithful cover of The Lemonheads' "Mallo Cup." [Dec 2010, p.98]
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Oct 21, 2010The sparkling solo project of multi-instrumentalist Adam Pierce, Mice Parade specializes in chilled indie arpeggios that swell with craftsmanship. We can now add to that description "crunchy sunshine," in the case of Pierce's third effort What It Means to Be Left-Handed.
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Dec 22, 2010Overall, the combination of outward-looking and backward-leaning influences on What It Means to Be Left-Handed makes for a pleasing combination of slacker indie rock ennui and joyous, ravenous culture-borrowing.
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Oct 21, 2010What It Means to Be Left-Handed contains more ideas than most guitar bands muster in their entire careers and will certainly consolidate Pierce's core cult audience.
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Oct 21, 2010For better or worse, it seems like Mice Parade would rather not do things the easy way.