Mongrel is the third album by American mathcore band The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Recorded in Seattle over a four-month period, it is the follow-up to 2005’s Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.. In its opening week, it reached a peak position of 19 on the Top Heat seeker, and 34 on top Independent Albums Billboard Charts. On April 12, 2015 the album was re-released on limited edition, hand numbered cassettes.
In a lead-up to the album’s release a number of cryptic postings concerning the album were found on the internet by fans of the band. These included a video clip featuring a snippet of “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” and three websites, displaying lyrics to “Grandfather” and “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” as well as album artwork.
According to Jesse Korman, in an interview with “the whole theme behind the album is mongrel…you can’t really define what a ‘mongrel’ is — it’s just a crazy mutt — and all of our songs are just all over the place. We wanted this album to be just complete chaos, with no direction at all.Korman further states that “While there’s no thematic link between the Mongrel and the LP artwork…the cover features a humanoid creature that suffers from schizophrenia and [this creature] embodies the unruliness of the music.
