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Mimicking Birds Get Support From Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock
- Posted on Mar 8th 2010 1:31PM by Steve Baltin
Mimicking Birds frontman Nate Lacy is a Modest Mouse admirer, and now the auteur behind the Portland, Ore. band's gorgeous and ethereal self-titled debut has a fan in Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock. "I really liked what he sang about," Brock tells Spinner of Lacy. "I liked that it got me thinking a little, the fact that the songs really did move me. There's something really not pretentious about it, which is hard to come by, to be honest."Brock was so moved by Lacy's songs he is releasing Mimicking Birds' self-titled album on his own Glacial Pace records. Originally, the teaming came about because of a third party, a friend of Lacy's. "I didn't actually send in a CD personally, a friend of mine did," Lacy says. "We've been aware that Isaac [had] a label and it had been going for a little while, he had Mason Jennings on there. [It] seemed like a good opportunity."
The soft-spoken Lacy is very unassuming about the opportunity to work with Brock. "It seemed like a pretty neat place to be as an artist," he says of recording on Glacial Pace. "We definitely have a lot of interests stylistically and substance-wise."
The two got to explore those similarities last year when they toured together, and Lacy naturally learned much during that run together. "There's a lot that I've learned more or less, subtly little things here and there that add up to just really how to approach situations and performing aspects of everything," he says. Brock found his touring mate to be a quick study. "He got better and better every night," Brock says. "It was really cool to see. I don't think I did personally figured out how to fix things I was doing live nearly as quickly as I saw him [do it]."
Brock is a very proud label boss, putting out 'Mimicking Birds.' "I'm really glad that it worked out we are working together 'cause it would've been sad not to have gotten to be involved in it," he says. "He's a really easy guy for me to get along with and I like to work on projects that I actually just want to listen to in general."
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I heard of Mimicking Birds through
one of my favorite solo artists who changes his name every few months. But I could never read anything in the he dreams awake sites where he wasn't raving about this new singer/songwriter who had opened
for Modest Mouse during last years tour. He says that Isaac is even cooler than you would expect and that the main guy from Mimicking Birds which basically is the band, same as Knifa from HDAwake which is really intersting to me. So, Knifa said that this guy Nate is like a scientist and biologist in a singer/songwriters body and just recently I finally got my hands on the first album from Mimicking Birds and it is eveything that I hoped for and more. Every song is so pretty and unlike most Bands these days, Isaac kept
it very simple and stripped down but it is still so lush and full and beautiful. It's odd how one of the best songwriters in the world now has another one of the best on his label. That guy is just awesome and so is the guy from mimicking birds. I know that Alan from HDA will probably stumble across this one day and I hope that you gave put out your
first album by than! I have 48 songs of yours on
my iPod and I know every part of every song. I love how you don't even need lyrics alot
of time because the music and emotion in your voice speaks for
itself. I am also fascinated by your approach to he dreams awake at this point, I know that you don't really talk about it but I know that every song you have recorded up
to this point has been recorded in one take with nothing planned beforehand. I think you could easily be like van gogh or something and noone will really
know your music or truly understand and appreciate it until years after ur dead and gone. It's just that what your doing has never been done before on such a bizarre and amazing level of integrity. I hope that the world proves me wrong and someone important looks into what your doing and sees how you were the main songwriter of The Sick when you guys won the record
deal and made the front page of the paper whe. Yu
were 13 and 14 beating out Crossbreed who were in their 20's and monks away from
signing a massive major label deal and te
I saw you put together Device and win all those competitions and selling out he state theatre and then you put together my favorite of the 3: iramotive which had such long and wondjng
roads. I remember you comic out
in the panda mask when you won that huge show at gasoline alley, there must have been close to a thousand people there justfor you. You
were so f#cked up but u still put on an amazing show and won 1st place like
always along with best singer and best
lyrics. I was always singing every word to every song and your lyrics
still touch me so deeply. Everyone in Tampa
including the DJs at 98 Rock talked about tu
guys on the air and how
you'd be signed within months and then
it got around how you almost killed the guy who had raped
you when you were a little lid and then
you skipped town and dissappeared, leaving so
many fans wondering if you were alive or in prison and then your
first solo project You Died. But I Love
You came out and you were on the front page of the newspaper again with hour head shaved and the headphones on. That picture was massive. So, here you are with He Dreams Awake and you are on your A game for sure. I heard a radio interview where you said you planned on your first ever album at the end of 2010 and me and a fanclub I
made that has over 100 people just hanging on
your every move. We can't wait man! This was so long, but very important because this is my way of writing about you in the same
way that you make your music, in the shadows and more
of a mystery than any band or
artist has ever been able to pull off. Bands and singers say that they are mysterious or they don't play for anyone but themselves but you are the only musician that has ever lived up
to that billing. Like I said, unless Isaac Brock or someone with that power and
vision finds you and realizes what you are
worth to music and artistic integrity in general, I am
afraid you will die an unknown pioneer, but something tells me that you wouldn't mind
one bit.
I hope that you put out a CD that you love
and start touring again. Tampa Bay needs
you and so does the rest of the world at this point.












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