Mixel Pixel : Let's Be Friends

The last time MOKB gave mention to Mixel Pixel, they, and their live show, were met with generally rave reviews from our readers. I guess I expected the band to break out a little in the aftermath. Not because we wrote about them, but sometimes the microcosm of response marks an overall feeling in the indie music world.

Mixel Pixel will release their latest album, Let's Be Friends, on June 3rd through Mental Monkey Records. The band says the album is all about friendship, but they also discuss cats, the fear of death, drug visions, fashion police, inner peace, being struck by lightning, loneliness, love, NYC, faith, rebirth and sex.

Rob Corradetti and Kaia Wong wrote the songs last year after each experienced break-ups from long-term relationships, and that's really what you hear in this album. The two seem to be working through their post-break up thoughts and feelings backdropped by a 60's mod vibe. The songs are a little more low-key than some of their previous works. The album has a melancholy, cosmic new wave synth-pop feel throughout. In addition to Let's Be Friends, Mixel Pixel have an EP and a DVD coming out later in 2008 on Mental Monkey.

Mixel Pixel - You Could Be
Mixel Pixel - Sinking Feeling

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