Excerpt: "What would happen if you took Red House Painters and gave them Wheaties  before recording? Mukaizake’s languorous rhythms and stretched-out  singing, as well as its minor-key melodies, do take a page from RHP. The  songs hide a certain complexity, though, that might get them tagged as  math-rock were the band to play them at twice their speeds. As it  happens, playing somber math rock at half speed brings out subtleties  that you might miss otherwise.... You barely notice that the band has been  sneaking in the odd beat, the odd melody, the unusual attenuation of  form because it’s always delivered fluidly and naturally. Maybe  Mukaizake is best described as a thinking man’s slowcore."

<a href="http://www.adequacy.net/2010/03/mukaizake-unknown-knowns/" target="_blank">Delusions of Adequacy </a>