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Album Details

• Artist: Mice Parade
• Album: Obrigado Saudade
• Label: Bubble Core
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-12-12

Adam Pierce's Mice Parade project has already been around for about 5 years and with Adam releasing an album a year, you figure he must be a busy guy. People have mistaken Adam's drum playing for a drum machine, that is how tight the guy is. Not only does he write this music but he also plays pretty much every other instrument on the album, bar a few songs with some help from friends. While the title of the album is in Portuguese (direct translation "Obliged Homesickness"), the album doesn't contain that many Brazilian influences. I can hear a couple places where Mice Parade has chosen a bit of a worldly flavor but for the most part, Adam has gone in the direction of music he has done in the past. Some of the guitars do have a Latin flavor to them like the album closer, "Refrain Tomorrow" but the song itself still maintains a very western styled influence on top. This is where projects like Mice Parade become fun. Influences fade in and out of songs giving you a nice variety of styles. Obrigado Saudade is a very convincing album though. Adam moves the so called post-rock into another realm all together with this release. I think Tortoise will have to look towards Mice Parade for influence. For me, "Focus On The Roller Coaster" is by far one of the best songs on Obrigado Saudade. It mixes Adam's voice with a fast paced and yet very gentle instrumentation. One of my least favorite is "Guitars For Plants" where guitars just seem to drone on on tunelessly for about 4 minutes. Other than that song, a brilliant release.

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