Search - The Mouse That Roared :: Excommunicator

"Sketch out an imaginary triangle with space rock, orch pop and Americana as its points; The Mouse That Roared roam freely across the vast, three-cornered space between them, shifting easily from string-assisted melodic dirges to drawn-out minimalist piano figures to gently soaring steel guitar licks." - SPLENDID The Mouse That Roared croons, shuffles, and drones to suggest a snapshot of a time where you can sit and drink coffee, meditating on the concept of becoming nothing. The core songwriting harkens back to sixties British pop tempered with American folk sensibilities and seventies progressive rock (but without nearly as much pretension). The band's new album, Excommunicator, is the product of two years of writing in an attempt to deconstruct conventional pop songs and reassemble them into a coherent organism. While the bulk of the album contains tight pop melodies framed in Americana transmitted from the future ghost of Juice Newton, the beginning and end are sprawling psych landscapes that define the entire journey.