
What It Means To Be Left Handed is the eighth album from Adam Pierce’s Mice Parade. At first it seems easy to class this latest offering as a pleasant smattering of world music, especially with opening track Kupanda, an upbeat, African inspired number with rhythmic vocals and considering the globally varied collaborators Pierce has assembled for this project. But What It Means To Be Left Handed is oh so much more than this.
In Between Times is a shock to the system following the cheerful rhythm and deep, earthy vocals of Kupanda. Caroline Lufkin’s breathless, childlike voice surges...