New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Billingham, Teesside-based duo Mouses are pleased to reveal the video their latest single �Green� which is out now via Sister 9 Recordings and available to download at: https://shop.sister9.com/album/green-single
The track is latest to be taken from their debut full length LP The Mouses Album on 23rd
September 2016 via Sister 9 Recordings / Cargo.
Speaking about the idea behind the tongue-in-cheek visuals, front man Steven Bardgett said: "The video is our take on a nature documentary. It kind of amplifies the idea that nature should be viewed and experienced rather than controlled or tampered with. Also, we just wanted to dress up as mice and run around to be honest. That's probably the main reason.�
�Things got off to a slow start. On the first day of filming for this, we drove about 40 minutes to Castle Eden Dene to get some footage. When we were in the middle of the forest ready to start filming, some people rode through on quad bikes and motorbikes. They looked at us for a while and we got scared so we just went back home."
The two-some are fresh from raucous performances at this year�s Reading & Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing stage after being hand-picked by BBC
Radio One DJ and Introducing champion Huw Stephens, who�s been waxing lyrical about the band over the past few weeks.
Watch them play �Green� live on the iPlayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0467h6n
After building a fierce reputation off the back of two DIY EPs, the lo-fi garage rock twosome recently released previous single �Hollywood� to a barrage of support from the likes of DIY, Clash, BBC
Radio One, BBC6
Music and more.
This new track shows yet another side to front man Steven Bardgett�s chameleonic, quirky song-writing with echoes of The Beatles� surrealist Wild West ballad Rocky Raccoon set against the chainsaw fuzz of the track�s Weezer-channelling opening riff; more evidence that this beautifully odd and unique band just keep on getting better and better.
Commenting on the inspiration behind new track �Green�, Bardgett explains: "Primarily the song is about the morality of a certain drug and the stigma that surrounds it. I've always been a purveyor of the idea that legality and morality don't always go hand in hand - just because something is legal doesn't make it morally right and vice versa.�
�On a secondary level,� he continues �the song deals with the bigger picture - the warped version of morality that runs through society - and is written from first-hand experience of how a relationship can break down because of this. People should think for themselves rather than what they're told to think. The very fact that so many people don't is why the world is the way it is."
Citing the likes of early
Weezer and the lo-fi fuzz of Ty Segall as influences, the duo�s tracks are packed with surrealist lyrics that call to mind Stephen Malkmus at his very weirdest.
Mouses are guitarist and vocalist Steven Bardgett and drummer Nathan Duff; a lo-fi garage rock duo from the North East of England renowned for their raw and energetic live performances and a tendency for gig induced self-destruction. Formed in early 2014 as an antidote to the manufactured pop that continues to saturate the mainstream, they are determined to strip music back to its primal beginnings, whilst still displaying a love for melodies and catchy hooks.
Debut LP The Mouses Album is set for release on 23rd
September 2016.
Watch the video for previous single �Hollywood� here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r85J_fEN4Ew
Watch the video for previous single �Poison� here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwHsYh-b-i8
Mouses 2016 UK Tour Dates:
September 10th � We Are Family Festival - Hartlepool
September 23rd - The Georgian Theatre � Stockton (album launch show)
September 24th - Stockton - Sound It Out Instore (matinee)
September 24th - Newcastle SQ Festival - Jumpin' Jacks
September 25th - Rec Rocks Festival � Peak District (Tim Peaks Stage, 5pm)
September 29th - Manchester - AATMA (w/ Fur + Witch Fever)
September 30th - Sheffield - West Street Ale House (w/ Mathletics)
October 1st - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
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