Part children's cartoon, part career retrospective, What It Means to Be Left-Handed is the first Mice Parade album to be released in the band's second decade of existence. Diverging from the pop sensibilities of Mice Parade's most recent successes - Bem-Vinda Vontade and Mice Parade - it is a fresh adventure, all over the map and awash in color; splashes of West-African Highlife mingle with Flamenco, Brazilian Jazz, and the late '80s indie rock that band founder Adam Pierce was stuck on in high school.