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Parks And Rec Band Mouse Rat Are Actually Releasing A Real Album

Parks And Rec Band Mouse Rat Are Actually Releasing A Real Album

Get ready to rock out to bangers like 'The Pit', 'Sex Hair' and '5,000 Candles in the Wind'.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Mouse Rat is a legendary band in the eyes of Parks and Recreation fans around the world.

Even though they have gone through several monikers in the past (including Puppy Pendulum, Foreskin Solution, Just The Tip, Everything Rhymes With Orange, Nothing Rhymes With Orange), its Mouse Rat that we all know and love.

But while the characters and events of the beloved Pawnee local city council are fictional, it appears the band in the TV show is very real.

So real, in fact, that they're releasing an actual album that will be available for purchase later this year.

NBC

On the 10th anniversary of the minature horse Li'l Sebastian's death, Mouse Rat members Chris Pratt (vocals), Mark Rivers (drums), Andrew Burlinson (guitar) and Alan Yang (bass) have come together to create the appropriately titled The Awesome Album.

It will feature iconic songs like 'The Pit', '5,000 Candles In The Wind (Bye Bye Li'l Sebastian)', 'Sex Hair' and 'Catch Your Dream'.

The full-length album will be dropping on August 27 and will also feature Duke Silver aka Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) on saxophone and Land Ho!, the TV show's iconic Pawnee rock band led by Scott Tanner (Jeff Tweedy).

To help reveal the project, the band called on actor Jay Jackson, who played TV reporter Perd Hapley to make a special announcement on social media.

NBC

"It's been 10 years since Li'l Sebastian went to mini horse heaven, and to celebrate his miniature life, local band Mouse Rat has released '5,000 Candles In The Wind," Jackson says in the video. "So, go listen and gently weep with me! Ya heard?"

The album will be officially released via DualTone, however it's also being supported by the fictional music company Entertainment 720, which was created by Aziz Ansari's character Tom Haverford.

The full track list to the album is as followed:

  1. 5,000 Candles In The Wind (Bye Bye Li'l Sebastian)
  2. The Pit
  3. Sex Hair
  4. Catch Your Dream (Feat. Duke Silver)
  5. Two Birds Holding Hands
  6. Ann Song
  7. The Way You Look Tonight
  8. Menace Ball
  9. Remember
  10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
  11. Lovely Tonight
  12. I've Got You Under My Skin
  13. I Only Have Eyes For You
  14. Pickled Ginger (Performed By Land Ho!)
  15. Cold Water (Performed By Land Ho!'s Scott Tanner w/ Dick Silver)
Featured Image Credit: NBC

Topics: Entertainment, TV and Film, Music

Stewart Perrie is a Trending Journalist at LADbible. His first job was as a newsreader and journalist at the award winning Sydney radio station, Macquarie Radio. He was solely responsible for the content broadcast on multiple stations across Australia when the MH17, Germanwings and AirAsia disasters unfolded. Stewart has covered the conflict in Syria for LADbible, interviewing a doctor on the front line, and has contributed to the hugely successful UOKM8 campaign.

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