Mouth Silence is the second mashup mixtape by American musician and comedian Neil Cicierega. Following the format of his previous release, Mouth Sounds, the mixtape is composed of mashups and remixes of popular songs from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
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| Released | July 19, 2014 | |||
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| Length | 55:48 | |||
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Unlike Mouth Sounds, which used the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth as a recurring element, Mouth Silence relegates said song to Easter eggs.
A third installment, Mouth Moods, was released in 2017, and a fourth installment, Mouth Dreams, in 2020.
Although Mouth Silence is the second mixtape released in the series, according to Cicierega, it is a prequel to Mouth Sounds.[1] It is, jokingly, also considered a "squeakquel" to Mouth Moods[2] and a "shriekquel" to Mouth Dreams.[3]
Several tracks feature original instrumental work by Cicierega, and the instrumental to "Space Monkey Mafia" is entirely original.[4]
Reception
editMuch like its predecessor, Mouth Sounds, critics remarked on the mixtape's simultaneous appeal to and perversion of the listener's nostalgia, with Katie Rife of The A.V. Club describing it as "laugh out loud horrifying"[5] and Ryan Manning of The Verge promising that listeners would "have a strong reaction, negative, positive, horrified, glorified".[6] Sasha Geffen, writing for Impose Magazine, describes the effect as "total context collapse", calling it "paradoxically [...] comforting".[7]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Goodbye" | 2:17 |
| 2. | "Rollercloser" | 3:25 |
| 3. | "Furries" | 2:20 |
| 4. | "Friends" | 0:10 |
| 5. | "Best" | 3:53 |
| 6. | "Pokémon" | 3:17 |
| 7. | "Sexual Lion King" | 3:52 |
| 8. | "Crocodile Chop" | 3:42 |
| 9. | "Transmission" | 0:54 |
| 10. | "Love Psych" | 3:54 |
| 11. | "Orgonon Gurlz" | 4:19 |
| 12. | "Born to Cat" | 0:43 |
| 13. | "What Is It" | 3:04 |
| 14. | "It's" | 1:09 |
| 15. | "Close to the Sun" | 1:24 |
| 16. | "Numbers" | 5:07 |
| 17. | "Space Monkey Mafia" | 3:48 |
| 18. | "Wndrwll" | 3:28 |
| 19. | "Piss" | 4:58 |
| Total length: | 55:48 | |
References
edit- ^ "MOUTH SOUNDS". www.neilcic.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "MOUTH MOODS". www.neilcic.com. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "MOUTH DREAMS". www.neilcic.com. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "Neil Cicierega Tumblr". Neil Cicierega Tumblr. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
- ^ Katie Rife (July 22, 2014). "The sequel to "Mouth Sounds" is here, and it's laugh out loud horrifying". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ Ryan Manning (July 26, 2014). "Mouth Silence is the sound of your brain roasting". The Verge. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ Sasha Geffen (September 10, 2014). "Mouth Singularity: Neil Cicierega's Context Collapse". Impose Magazine. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.