Mouse on Mars - "Parastrophics" (first album in 6 yrs) due Feb 24!!!!

I thought they were from Cologne too. The Sonig offices are def in Cologne, I made my pilgrimage to the A-Musik shop (which is - was? I hope it's still going - one super rad record shop btw) and peered through the doorway to the office behind while rifling through 7"s

and I'm still going to get a little excited abt this because I do still love some of their busy 00s material (mainly the Agit Itter It It minialbum thing), even if it isn't as all-time as, oh, everything before Niun Niggung

I have just been listening to Iaora Tahiti for the first time in years and it is not an album of its time. It is so fucking good.

Since you didn't ask for it, my favorite song off of each MoM album! A POX in fact (well not really I'd pick more than one song per album if it was a pox):

Frosch (Vulvaland)
Saturday Night Worldcup Fever (Iaora Tahiti)
Schnick Schnack Meltmade (Autoditacker)
Chromantic (Instrumentals)
Fantastic Analysis (Idiology)
Tiplet Metal Plate (Glam)
Albion Rose (Niun Niggung)
Skik (Varcharz)
Send Me Shivers (Radical Connector)
Cache Coeur Naif (Cache Coeur Naif EP)

Full stream here: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2012/02/listen-mouse-mars-parastrophics-

Every time I am just about to skip a track on Parastrophics because it sounds iritatingly like Prefuse 73 or just iritating, it suddenly transforms into something really nice. For me its a frustrating album, but I will stick with it a bit for old times sake.

this feels like it might've actually been ahead of its time

i never even bothered checking it out, but now that i'm hearing it… cosine