Mouse on The Keys is a unique mixture of drums and keyboard, as well as the unlikely pairing of post rock with jazz fusion. Hailing from Toyko, here is the official music video and a rather inventive performance of the opening track off their mini album, Sezession.
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Mouse On the Keys, Saigo no Bansan
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 by CrapIsis “Wavering Radiant”
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 by Crap
Wavering Radiant seems to mark a departure of sorts for the post metal quintet. The album seems to closely link to their past body of work but also marks a shift in a sonic paradigm. Aaron Turner in response to Billboard said:
“This is a better sonic representation of what the band actually sounds like. In the past I think some of the recordings were a little too clean in their final form. There was something about the energy that seemed to be lacking. It seems to feel more like us than anything else has.”
Wavering Radiant definitely doesn’t sound “cleaner” and does seem to have an elevation of energy that could have been lacking before. Tracks are ultimately much more dynamic ranging from heavy riffs with complex percussion to almost ambient-like drones that are more akin to bands like Boris or Earth.
As for not sounding clean, I think this is the first thing that hits the returning listener. It hard to necessarily pinpoint, but there is something that is indeed much more raw about this release then prior ones. Its more akin to hearing a performance live or improvised rather then recorded with precision detail. Its not so much that the production is shoddy or minimal in anyway, more so that the almost mechanical aesthetic of before has been shifted toward a more organic sound.
Studio footage embedded after the break:
