John Maus

no one's been talking about it here but the 'rarities & unreleased material' record is a party & absolutely worth your time.

It certainly is a grower and I find the sound of the album - that deliberately 80s sounding synth cheese with doomy vocals thing - to be really intriguing...it should be awful!

now on his wikipedia:

Underground Releases
1984: Maus
1985: Maus Time
1986: Baumaus
1987: Man or Maus?
1988: Maus and the Gang
1989: Maus and the Gang 2: Return of the Maus
1990: Maus and the Gang 3: This Time It's Mausy
1991: The Janitor's First LP, with Sam Anderson and Cory Boik
1992: The Janitor's Second LP, with Sam Anderson and Cory Boik
1993: A Janitor's EP, with Sam Anderson and Cory Boik
1994: Early Songs 1, with Cory Boik
1995: Early Songs 2
1996: Early Songs 3
1997: Early Songs 4
1998: Mass Appeal, with the Tony Alonso Ensemble
1998: The Mystery Molasses LP, with Ian Stahl, Jay Jensen, Gabe Schlake and Jess Bednar
1998: Early Songs 5
2000: Fish With Broken Dreams
2000: Love Letters From Hell
2001: Snowless Winters EP
2003: I Want to Live
2011: Demos

"Believer" is some next level shit

pretty much

All-time break down

Psyched to hear that he's planning new music for next year.

We Must Become has to be one of the most surprisingly enduring records I've heard in recent years. I didn't expect to give it more than just a cursory listen when it first came out, but I ended up just having it on repeat for weeks and I still play certain tracks on a fairly frequent basis.

^^ otm. It's in my top ten of the last ten years probably. Never expected it because his previous work was so scruffy and scrappy, but We Must Become is a stone cold classic start to finish.

Great news that he's going to make music again, was afraid he'd stick to lecturing.

I just got my first Twitter follower who's not a member of my family - John Maus!

just realized new gold dream by simple minds feels like a total blueprint for the john maus vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMgfi9y-nc

https://t.co/NebtrtwBRF
Aug 19th

— John Maus (@JOHNMAUS) May 18, 2017

Aug 19 at moma?

Hope it’s something to do with Spotify.

I can sort of understand the New Gold Dream comparison in terms of the kinds of chord changes used.. I'm always thinking in terms of arrangements/sonics

when's he dropping a new album?

^^^^^^^^^^

i think he said in an interview a few years so he wanted to have a live band for his next album

huh

https://youtu.be/g_WPWpo2AXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_WPWpo2AXU

i hope john maus finds what he's looking for

I do too. This is awesome though.

really liked that but I will never not call him "worthless vhs idiot john maus" in my mind

keep the meme alive!

is this guy the pretentious Ariel Pink?

adam what are you using the word pretentious for, is it cuz of philosophy

I'm excited.

I've been popping maus all day, would love to see him live

he is amazing imo.

I'd basically given up on him coming back with new music, so when I say I'm excited, you'd better believe I mean I AM EXCITED.

Count me EXCITED as well

"The Combine" is from the forthcoming album Screen Memories by worthless VHS idiot JOHN MAUS available October 27, 2017. Screen Memories is also a part of a career-spanning limited edition 6 LP box set being released in April 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kF2-Cr6yX4

Dear worthless VHS idiot JOHN MAUS,

It's good to have you back.

Yours,

I like the new one, some very nice synth solos. Compositionally and production wise, could fit in well on that Rarities disc.

Damn. He's coming to town opening for a.pink but don't want any of my money going to AP. 30 bucks for an opening act is steep.

^ especially steep if Maus's live set is still just him singing and shouting over his music played on an iPod.

I saw Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti years ago because Os Mutantes were opening. I thought AP was pretty good! I was impressed by how the band seemed to capture the washed-out VHS sound of his records in a live show. But this was before all the controversy and I was a few drinks in by the time he came onstage.

definitely one of those acts that is great after a few drinks ... or more

AP music is good!! but yeah he is a garbage person

well was good, i just like the old lofi stuff mostly. crut you really should check out "the doldrums" album at least once..

i hate ap but love his music so i got a ticket, fetch :(

yeah I like The Doldrums!

just him singing and shouting over his music played on an iPod

this sounds extremely appealing to me and is why i bought tickets earlier

That was APs set up when I saw him like a decade ago. I like his music but he's a choad and has been rude to me a couple of times.

i think maus is playing with a band now

maus back

part of me wishes ppl stopped making music like this and ppl like him and ariel pink would just die or fade into obscurity so that i could compartmentalize it in my mind, maybe eventually be nostalgic about it..... but that song is p good

maus' music kind of makes me nauseous and puts me in a foul mood and i like it a lot. i'm not sure what other musician does that for me

leaked?

Yep.

WMBTPCOOS has to be one of the most surprisingly enduring albums that I know. I gave it, what I assumed was going to be, a cursory listen when it came out but then ended up buying the record and now I still play it quite regularly

Same for me. It's a classic album imo, and it clicked right away with me.

I've only heard the new one once; not sure it will be as classic for me, but it's what he does best and I really enjoy it.