his first three albums are still quite good. my impression is getting an actual backing band made him worse live but i've never seen him.
re: the january 6 stuff, he just made some kinda weird evasive disavowals of the far-right (as he had in the past when pressed on his association with MDE), not quite backing down but also certainly not doubling down like pink did. idk if he's at all truly a trump supporter but at best still he's like, a credulous moron who overthinks things until he's arrived at some bizarre and pretty stupid perspective.
i did just learn though that maus & pink fell out last year because maus asked pink to be his sound engineer for a festival set, the festival said "sorry we're not having ariel pink here" and maus refused to cancel the set because he needed the money which made pink mad.
iirc there are also some creepy blog posts or something similar from back in the day on the same topic
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link