Mouseatouille return with their third album DJ Set, out now on vinyl and all music platforms. This October, the band will take the new record on the road, bringing their intricate live show to headline stages in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney – Tickets on sale now.

Mouseatouille, the Melbourne nine-piece collective, has always sought comfort in numbers. There is a reassurance in the orchestra, the knowledge that a friend has your back, that someone is always playing along with you. Initially a fuzzed-out, lo-fi cassette recording, high school project of singer/songwriter Harry Green and drummer Spencer Noonan, Mouseatouille quickly grew in size to satiate their appetite for intricate arrangements and dense instrumentation. The band expanded to include anyone who could be convinced to pick up an instrument and play.

Their 2019 double album Out of the Hospital and Into the Morgue featured more than 25 performers, musicians and non-musicians alike, playing everything from woodwind, brass and strings to banjo, tubular bells and hand claps. Now a nine piece, the band oscillates between considered and delicate indie folk and raucous noise rock that hurtles towards the audience like an avalanche.

Mouseatouille’s new album DJ Set works to retain this high school spirit. Recorded haphazardly, using whatever equipment was available and employing a “learn-as-you-go” approach to composition and arrangement. Through endless rehearsals and recording sessions in a garage, a sharehouse kitchen and a parent’s lounge room, Mouseatouille synthesises the care and precision of orchestral arrangement with the spontaneity and carelessness of getting together with your friends to make music simply because it’s fun.

A pop sensibility runs through all of these modest recordings; in fact, they are as much cautious studies in pop music as they are wide-eyed attempts at being an orchestra. The songs often build to grand crescendos or collapse under their own weight and tumble into dissonance. This oscillation between meticulously arranged pop and screeching cacophony pervades DJ Set. There is also the joyous tension of a band precariously reaching beyond its limits and the genuine elation when they grasp what they have been striving for; and yes – the occasional wry smile when it remains just beyond their reach.

Purchase / stream DJ Set here.
DJ Set East Coast Tour Tickets here.

Mouseatouille DJ Set Album Tour & Vinyl Launch

Sunday 21 September
Vinyl Launch – Rocksteady Record, Melbourne [Free & all ages]  

Saturday 11 October
Lithuania Club, Melbourne w/ Katie Dey – Tickets

Saturday 18 October
Dissent, Canberra w/ Melt and Vanishing Sound – Tickets

Friday 24 October
Season Three, Brisbane w/ Naaki Soul – Tickets

Saturday 25 October
Factory Floor, Sydney w/ Mona Mule and Banjo Ulysses – Tickets

5,6,7 December
Meredith Music Festival – Meredith, Victoria [Sold out]