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| Pitchfork |
 Mimicking Birds is the spectral folk/home recording project of Portland's Nate Lacy. This, his first full-length under the MB guise, was produced by Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock for the latter's Glacial Pace imprint, a footnote that's actually no footnote at all. In addition to simply signing him, Brock has taken Lacy under his wing in recent years, bringing him along to open Modest Mouse amphitheater tours, and leaving behind audible prints on his studio efforts as well.
Lacy's extremely gifted with cyclical melodies: thorny, fingerpicked spines around which he can snake a range of sounds simply for ambience. He accomplishes a lot of that here by considering a lot of the same moods and midnight tones as Brock did on his masterstroke The Moon & Antarctica or his work in Ugly Casanova. The vocal layers in particular are used as backup instruments, garbled and muffled (see the thunderclapping coda of "New Doomsdays") as though they're being transmitted from other orbits. Yet on openers "Home and Somewhere Else" and the appropriately titled "The Loop", it works because of how close it all feels when streaming through headphones. Whether Lacy's whispering or rasping, purring or stretching out his falsetto, you can hear each inhale and exhale as though you're listening from inside the dude's chest cavity. Lyrically he keeps in time and rhyme with the nature of his picking, the effect just as riveting as it is meditative....full text |
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| Avclub |
| Isaac Brock isn’t just the bark behind Modest Mouse—he’s also something of a part-time A&R man who was responsible for bringing both The Shins and Wolf Parade to Sub Pop. He now curates the Glacial Pace label, which has yet to find that level of commercial success, but has nonetheless released a string of Mouse-approved bands. Portland’s Mimicking Birds is the latest, though it might owe more to Brock’s solo project, Ugly Casanova, than his main band. It’s the brainchild of hushed songwriter Nate Lacy, who chooses to lightly adorn his dark, whisper-sung compositions with minimal acoustic guitars and various plinks, plunks, and creaks. Lacy’s songs are rarely immediate—only “Burning Stars” really nears a trot, the others just saunter—but they’re worth exploring. “The Loop” spins a hypnotic guitar line into five minutes of bliss, and if you listen closely you can hear Brock—who also co-produced the disc—emoting in the distance. Elsewhere, the album sounds slightly more traditional—it’s easy to imagine Jeff Buckley tackling “Remnants And Pictures”—but never obvious. It’s the kind of quiet, considered songwriting that’s easy to dismiss as boring, but that ultimately proves itself anything but....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| The music of Mimicking Birds is driven and characterized by space. All kinds of it, really. When Portland-based singer/songwriter Nate Lacy isn’t singing of intergalactic saloons and far off moons, he is delving lyrically into the intricacies and eerie silence of the natural world. The music isn’t much different. Think Jose Gonzalez on a sci-fi kick or The Moon and Antarctica-era Modest Mouse on ludes. Fragile, melancholy and complexly surreal, their debut full-length on Issac Brock’s imprint Glacial Pace quietly appears out of the dense, woods of the Northwest and builds a nest into your speakers. Full of warm, milky reverb and cyclical guitar lines glazed over a blanket of elaborate sound textures, Mimicking Birds’ first LP is an intimate, moody affair perfect for late evenings or early Sundays. As impressive of a debut as it is, the album as a whole does falter slightly from feeling a bit monochromatic as a whole. Lacy doesn’t have a particularly compelling voice and his melodies are more hypnotic than catchy. If you’re not paying close enough attention, you might easily miss out on all the elaborate stuff going on here, but if you give it to them, they’ll definitely pull you in....full text |
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