PAPER MICE + Post-Trash

 

"The band’s advanced blend of prog and punk is at times atonal and harsh, leaning toward noise rock tendencies, and at others closer toward the surreal art rock end of the spectrum. Which is to say the band are able to make music that’s endlessly interesting, with challenging compositions that never feel challenging to listen to."
— Post-Trash

Watch the video for "The Cynic Route," via Post-Trash, here:

http://post-trash.com/news/2021/3/17/paper-mice-the-cynic-route-post-trash-premiere

Paper Mice is a three-piece whirligig from Chicago that blends a freakish range of influences into miniature, prog-punk puzzles.  Started in 2008 by Dave Reminick, Adam McCormack, and John Carroll, Taylor Hales took over for Adam on bass duties in 2013, and the band has been writing and performing together since that time. The band is a fixture in Chicago’s tight-knit DIY community, performing their high-wire “stop-start mess of rhythmic tics and awkward face plants” for dance-soaked warehouse hounds throughout the Midwest and East Coast. Over the years, they’ve toured and/or performed with musical peers Pinback, NNAMDI, Meat Wave, Melkbelly, Oozing Wound, and The Spektral Quartet, amongst others. Influences include The Beach Boys, The Residents, Abba, The Talking Heads, Nomeansno, This Heat, and Susana Baca.

 

This single is off of Paper Mice’s upcoming LP, 1-800-Mondays, which will be released digitally as well as on vinyl through Three One G Records on May 7th, 2021. Preorder, here.

 

Video concept and direction by NNAMDÏ.

 

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