All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

“All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade”. It may sound a little strange, but the title and beating heart of Icelandic indie-folk collective Of Monsters and Men’s fourth album hits a lot closer to home than you’d expect. A tapestry of stories, moments, and conversations, the album explores how love and pain intertwine. Feelings that might seem at odds with each other, but co-exist simultaneously and need one another. Tales both big and small — from the loneliness and longing of living in a block surrounded by strangers, to missed connections in a grocery store, to the lives and losses of a community of mice in a vacant house during winter.

Tracklist

1. Television Love
2. Dream Team
3. The Actor
4. Tuna in a Can
5. Barefoot in Snow
6. Fruit Bat
7. Kamikaze
8. The Towering Skyscraper at the End of the Road
9. Ordinary Creature
10. Styrofoam Cathedral
11. The Block
12. Mouse Parade
13. The End