May 23, 2007
Live Music
Mice Parade
Sat., May 26, 9pm. $10. With David Karsten Daniels. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. www.johnnybrendas.com
Once upon a time Adam Pierce’s anagrammatical project Mice Parade fit so perfectly in the space between Tortoise’s stringent math rock and the Sea and Cake’s bouncy post-rock that Pierce might as well have been named an honorary member of the Thrill Jockey family—perhaps a cousin or something.
Not one to leave well enough alone, Pierce continued to build on Mice Parade’s ambient electro sound by steadily piling on the instrumentation and collaborator credits.
Too much tinkering turned a once gorgeously spacey instrumental one-man project into an unstable mix of percussive guitars and untimely vocals.
That said, the Parade still boast an amazing live show complete with a Chinese harp. (Joshua Valocchi)
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