Music Blog

The music of Nate Lacy (aka Mimicking Birds) is driven and characterized by space. All kinds of it, really. When 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. Delicately melancholy and complexly surreal, their debut full-length on Issac Brock’s imprint Glacial Pace, quietly appears out of the woods 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 the wet, green surrounding of the Northwest. Think Jose Gonzalez on a sci-fi kick or The Moon and Antarctica-era Modest Mouse on ludes.

Oh, and did you know Nate Lacy lives in Portland? Chalk another one up on the ever-growing list of great bands currently residing in Stumptown, OR.

Lucky for us, because Lacy resides in this great city, the CD release party of the debut self-titled Mimicking Birds record will be at this week at the Mission Theater on March 6th. Opening will be the always lovely Ah Holy Fam’ly and Corrina Repp’s latest endeavor, Tu Fawning. TRIFECTA!

If you are unfamiliar with the work of Mimicking Birds, the boys stopped by our studios late last year for a performance, including versions of songs that will appear on the debut. Watch and listen here.