New Band: Mimicking Birds

What do we know about them? Their Myspace site describes them as 'lyrical/surf ' and they appear to consist of Nate Lacy, Tim Skellenger, and Aaron Hanson. Though Nate Lacy appears to be the heart, right leg and both hands of the band; he also does the artwork and mostly records alone. They're influenced by 'the Jingle Cats and Crash Test Dummies' (I did always wonder when bands would start citing them as an influence... guess that time has come!). They're signed to Glacial Pace (Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock's label and also home to Love as Laughter) and they go to sleep and wake up in Portland, Oregon. 

 

Their music sounds like cold mornings, imaginary answering machine messages and (dreams of) forests, rivers and the late night glow of empty refrigerators. (And they're brilliant!)

  

Oh and you're about to hear a hell of a lot more about them as they're scheduled to open for Modest Mouse on the following dates:

 

02-22 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater

02-23 Visalia, CA - Fox Theatre

02-24 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood Palladium

02-25 Tempe, AZ - Marquee

02-26 Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Convention Center

02-28 Boulder, CO - Balch Fieldhouse

03-02 Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater

03-03 Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom

03-04 Austin, TX - Stubb's

03-05 Oxford, MS - Lyric Oxford

03-07 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle

03-08 Miami, FL - Langerado Festival
 

None of which are even remotely close to us, but, as festival season is soon upon us, who knows?

 

 

 Mimicking Birds - Home and Somewhere else...

Mimicking Birds - The Chimney Sweep

Mimicking Birds - New Doomsdays 

  

Head over to their Myspace page now for plenty of other songs!