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

ya, that is the best of the batch for sure.

way better live than recorded these days, but I always find something to like in the newer albums

New track is really fucking sweet

http://soundcloud.com/modeselektor/mouse-on-mars-polaroyced

<i>at some point in the 90s MoM was like my MOST FAVOURITE BAND IN THE UNIVERSE, so their decline has always made me sad</i>

same here. i like 'idiology', tho. personal fav is still 'autoditacker'.

It's just that at some point in the 90s MoM was like my MOST FAVOURITE BAND IN THE UNIVERSE, so their decline has always made me sad. I'm sure they're still awesome live, though. The one time I saw them live (post-Niun Niggung) was among the best electronic music gigs I've ever seen.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 13, 2012 11:10 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, this is basically exactly how I feel about this band, and I agree, the live shows continued to floor me even as their records left me a bit cold.

thought idiology was aiight but ultimately a disappointment at the time. I remember really WORKING HARD at trying to like it and then being like, 'what's the point?' and shelving it. haven't gone back for... 10 years, probably? god, can't believe it's been so long.

anyway, glam/instrumentals were the high water marks for me. amazing records. such a liquid and organic sound... a bit like some of the vladislav delay/luomo/etc. stuff now that I think of it.

For some reason I always thought they were from Cologne, but have just read they were from Dusseldorf. So that makes them 2nd best band from Dusseldorf or they would have been 2nd best band from Cologne which is no disgrace.I agree with what was said upthread that barring Von Sudenfed they did lose their way a bit after Niun Niggung.

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