Trapped Mice: "Shades Pt. 1 (dis manibus)" video

Watch the new Trapped Mice video for their new single Shades Pt. 1 (dis manibus), a track from their Sacred to the Shades album.

Live date:

• 04/11 Edinburgh, UK @ The Wee Red Bar

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HCTF review of Sacred to the Shades.

Trapped Mice: Sacred to the Shades

Scottish band Trapped Mice are back with a fresh batch of Scottish avant-folk songs. Sacred to the Shades is more early R.E.M. than its predecessor Winter Sun and the overall mood is a bit more sinister and claustrophobic, even when it appears that there's a party going in the lead single When I Sleep.

The guy that gets send off to jail in The Trial is at odds with the world and never comes up with an explanation for his crimes. The lengthy Essex Wedding will never be made into a Hollywood blockbuster. Trapped Mice are a bunch of outsiders looking in. Recommended if you like Elbow and Morrissey.

Trapped Mice:
Ian Tilling: vocals, guitar
Dave Friend: guitar, keys
Brian Pokora: bass
Lucie Miller: violin, vocals
Adam Ley-Lange: drums

Sacred to the Shades is released thru Armellodie. Release date: April 6th.

Tracks:

1. A Brief Introduction to Modern History
2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
3. Slave Girl Song
4. Shades Pt.1 (Dis Manibus)
5. The Trial
6. Erotion
7. Essex Wedding
8. Old Patrons
9. The Space Race
10. When I Sleep
11. Shades Pt.2 (Sacred to the Shades)

Live dates:

• 04/03 Glasgow, UK @ The Old Hairdressers
• 04/11 Edinburgh, UK @ The Wee Red Bar

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HCTF review of Winter Sun.

Trapped Mice: Winter Sun

Scottish avant-folk band Trapped Mice kick off their new album Winter Sun with The Ending an instrumental featuring horses and sirens. It's a good way to introduce their blend of old school tunes with a touch of 21st Century tomfoolery. Singer Ian Tilling can holler and soothe, two moods that are mirrored by Lucie Miller's violin.

The Edinburgh quintet has found way to tough and fragile simultaneously. Tracks like Dance While Winter Cries and Mona Lisa ar goods songs to play when you are staring out of the window when the Fall rains are beating down on the roof. The Devil Wandered In and Hermit Point will please fans of The Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen.

Trapped Mice:
Ian Tilling: vocals, guitar
Dave Friend: guitar, keys
Brian Pokora: bass, ukulele
Lucie Miller: violin and keys
Barry Jackson: drums

Winter Sun is released thru Armellodie. Release date: November 5th.

Tracks:

1. An Ending
2. Cancel Shift
3. Dance While Winter Cries
4. Mona Lisa
5. Hermit Point
6. Quiet Place
7. Night of Broken Glass
8. Cameraman
9. Arthur's Seat
10. The Devil Wandered In
11. Demons

Live dates:

• 10/25 Chelsea's, Baton Rouge, LA
• 10/27 The Blue Nile Balcony Room, New Orleans, LA
• 11/08 The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
• 11/10 Bear Creek Music Festival, Live Oak, FL
• 11/23 La Grange, Dallas, TX
• 12/07 The Sunset, Seattle, WA
• 12/15 The Other Side, Denver, CO
• 12/21 Webby D's, Fort Smith, AR

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