Danny Dwyer of “mice band” shares new EP, ‘From the horse’s mouth’
February 3, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
After years of being the artist who inspires your favorite artist (and touring with, writing, and producing for them, too), LA-via-Missouri artist/producer Danny Dwyer returns with new EP From the horse’s mouth, out via Nettwerk. The 6-song EP cycles through grief with major chords, pop craft, and good company.
It’s obvious Danny has his ear to the ground musically, and the collaborators on From the horse’s mouth—Jeremy Zucker, Abhi Raju (Dijon, Brockhampton), Brandon Shoop (The 1975, Role Model) and Lava La Rue (just opened for Remi Wolf on tour) to name a few—are further proof. But the unique rollout for the EP’s breakout track “mice band” revealed that Danny is just as ahead of the curve with social media trends and AI technology as music, specifically when it comes to “brain rot” content.
In December, Instagram account @clipmodego discovered a 2022 demo of Danny’s and started using the sound for a video series where a band of AI-generated mice interrupt viral videos. Clips of the “mice band” have garnered tens of millions of views and the trend has become so large that Know Your Meme created an explanation page, Pigeons and Planes published a social media post about Danny, and one fan even made a documentary on the mice’s origins. One commenter reacted to the mice declaring: “More brainrot and better brainrot 2025, we’re on the right track.” With the success of the mice, Danny is embracing brain rot, and is redefining how musicians can use technology to build stories for their fans in the process.
Elsewhere on the EP, there’s the Jackson Brown key swings of midnight special “Not Too Late,” a Route 61 heart-bearer performed to an empty passenger seat, and the car-chase-paced dance magnet “Aura.” On “Penny,” skin-brushed honeymoon memories clash with an endless blame game, dueling narratives in the same skull.
For Danny, equal parts Ableton fiend and Mustang fixer, these collaged scenes fill a time capsule on the verge of true burial. Conjure to let rest, ruminate to forget, learn for what’s next. A delirium and boondocks isolation fused into one messy (re: honest) sendoff.
“I’m less worried about the next six months and more focused on how something will sound 60 years from now,” Dwyer says. “I’m getting closer to when I was 16, making what I wanted for the sake of it while having this pop musicality I’m so obsessed with.”
From the horse’s mouth is available at all digital retailers here: http://dannydwyer.ffm.to/fromthehorsesmouth