Micecars
I'm The Creature

I wanted to write this review before Mi Ami 2007, but then I told myself "why not go see them and then do the review" and so it was. Choices like these change your view of the world, in this change they alter the idea you have formed of a band. We are talking about the Micecars, a Roman band produced by Homesleep for their debut album, "I'm the creature", on which individuals like Agostinelli and Donadello, who manage Yuppie Flu and Giardini di Mirò, have put their hands.

Let's set some parameters to judge this band and its work: the album is well thought out and recorded, I recommend everyone to buy/download it, it is a refined production with echoes of Grandaddy, Pavement, a touch of dEUS and all that American indie that I'm sure the protagonists of The OC would like. There are inspired moments like “Nihil is the quest” or “Underwater slug” and the album flows cohesively, you are amazed to hear so many beautiful sounds in a single production, ideas abound, the execution is the cherry on top for an album that came out particularly well. More than positive opinions for a debut band, it would be great to find more like this.

Then comes Mi Ami and the live test. The impact is terrible. The band lets loose in a live performance that is approximative to the point of being slapdash at the last moment, the SOUNDS are missing (the ones so beautiful from the CD), the interpretation is lacking, the atmosphere which rises so strongly from the CD is nowhere to be found. The tracks are a pale shadow of the recordings, all the flaws of a band that is light years away from being prepared for a good live performance come to the forefront, a band that does not match their own work... but who are these guys?

You then start doing some mental calculations, glimpsing the possibility that the CD is the classic work suffering from overproduction, or that in truth, the band contributed little to nothing and the ideas are more from Homesleep than from themselves. I don't think you can work this way, perhaps the launch was premature, perhaps sometimes production covers too much of a band's flaws, which are then pathetically exposed on such occasions. Perhaps the Micecars are not what they claim to be live. What a pity.