I really wish I could replace all the album versions w/ recordings of what they did live last night
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Saw them last week... Was low keyed and frentic, and surprisingly fun to watch despite being pared down to its "classic" set-up (ie. no Dodo the drummer), and selecting only 2012 tracks.
― peepee, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i missed them
― mimosa pudica (clouds), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
me too :(
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
Ya I really wish they'd played more old stuff (or any at all tbh) but on the flipside it makes me wanna relisten to WOW
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
this is adorable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUVbkwWL_0
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
"give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with" sounds so much more appealing than the reality of "give an artist 10 minutes to just noodle and jam and fart out whatever they can for 10 long minutes"
― Stevie D(eux), Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
It's all true!
http://www.iflscience.com/space/there-really-giant-mouse-mars-0
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
new album tomorrow guys
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
big fan of the first three but for me more mouse on meh at this point
― the late great, Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
what!!!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 April 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
Ideology and audio tracker are their peaks
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
Fuck Varcharz was really good even tho the 20 glitch tracks at the end were a bit wtf
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
GLAM
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
Autoditacker just completely rules. Incredible sounds/melodies/configurations of textures.
― brimstead, Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:48 (six years ago) link
^ absolutely
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCo2oyVttWA
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
mmm hmm. funny how their sound became harsher & more rigid as they became more like a live band. their material from this period really sounds alive to me. like, I picture dense ecosystems & various organisms going about their day when I listen to it.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
t'Quietus review:http://thequietus.com/articles/24375-mouse-on-mars-dimensional-people-lead-album-review
― Jeff W, Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
This is rad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izSPpFNuBcs
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
The new one is pretty amazing, on first listen. Somehow, it's like a footwork version of Laughing Stock - https://mouseonmarstj.bandcamp.com/album/dimensional-people
― neilasimpson, Friday, 13 April 2018 11:25 (six years ago) link
yeah it's great! their best in years.
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
the new one's super southern fried, which is nice - i mean they've toyed with slide guitars before on Ideology and Iora Tahiti but this one is way more organic and "live" feeling, albeit still pushed through their sonic blender
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
One of the best records of the year easily. Each track bleeds into the next like a proper record which feels rare these days. Like the track after foul mouth uses the vocal samples from the former as an arrangement. It’s a southern jAZZ techno record, solid gold
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Saturday, 21 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
did they ever do another electropop record like radical connector? i haven't listened to any of the ones from the past decade but that was always one of my favs
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 April 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
but yeah glam > audioditacker > everything else
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Rompatroullie just came up on shuffle. Man, what a brilliant track.
― frogbs, Sunday, 22 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
Just a fantastic record. Sound shapes constantly shifting dissolving and being reborn in completely unexpected but perfect configurations.
― dsb, Sunday, 29 April 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
Respect to this band for that new record - it is like one long track - similar to what they did on Varcharz with all those glitch tracks at the end making the album reach something like 40 tracks. also the behind the scenes videos on how they made this record are super inspiring, using mobile apps that can record absolutely anywhere
but yeah audiotracker remains their best, likely has the best melodies -iora tahiti is also great. Idiology feels like where the avant garde rot set in, starting to take themselves a tad seriously. Lithops is even worse
― Ross, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
"Lithops is even worse"nah.Jan spat his ideas in perfect form early on (see "Didot", "Uni Umit", "Queries" comp - which are all FLIPIN AWESOME & pretty much testify that Jan did most of the heavy lifting in Microstoria) but diminishing returns up to "ye Viols", where I got off the bus. i'm old now so MoM/ Lithops now fall into "can't be bothered to keep up with" category
― massaman gai, Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
the new album is one of my favs of the year and their best in like, what, a decade? 15 yrs?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
Does the new album have them singing? I'd be intrigued to come back to what used to be my favourite group after 15 years, but the vocals ruined Idiology and Radical Connector, and after that album with the rock singer I just gave up on them.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah the new albums is very good, especially the brilliant opening suite.
it does feature singing but it's all guest vocals and (notwithstanding that) it's all very "vocals as another instrument" rather than focused around toplines.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Ok, I guess I should give it a try... Guest vocals don't sound as bad an idea as their own bland singing.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Check it out Tuomas, it is very good
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
tuomas what do you think
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 23 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
man Dimensional People is a weird fuckin' record
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
another one in five weeks
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/mouse_on_mars_are_diving_deep_into_ai_with_their_new_album_aai
the preview track is pretty wild. not only that but apparently you can get a "slightly damaged" vinyl copy of Dimensional People for $10 on their Bandcamp - the damage is just a crunched up corner on the jacket
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Rompatroullie just came up on shuffle. Man, what a brilliant track.Favorite MOM moment.
― trip maker, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
You can vote for The Latent Space from the new album in the 2020 EOY poll. Just saying.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
new album is uh...rather interesting. a lot of it sounds like a cursed version of the Von Sudenfed album. kinda meanders a bit and idk how I feel about the spoken word bits but a lot of this is pretty fun given the rather dry subject matter. may be one of those "five years ahead of its time" kinda albums
― frogbs, Sunday, 28 February 2021 05:00 (three years ago) link
y'all are sleeping on this. super uncanny valley feeling to it, with a lot of sounds and voices that try to be 2 or 3 things at once. very much like the "this person does not exist" stuff where it seems legit until one odd sound or break makes you think "wait a minute here". doesn't sound like it's just imitating AI, I think a lot of it actually is. outside of PROTO I don't think I've heard an album like this before. when the dance grooves start about halfway in it gets really fun.
― frogbs, Sunday, 7 March 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
I loved the last album, I still need to check this one out
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
Ditto. Once I’ve got through all my Bandcamp Friday acquisitions (and am done with Todd), this is definitely next on the list.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
maybe this will motivate some of you: half of this sounds like "Telephasic Workshop" to me
― frogbs, Monday, 8 March 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
I've listened to this a few times now and I think it might be very, very good.
― neilasimpson, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
absolutely loving AAI
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 07:42 (three years ago) link
Total agreement from me.
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
it's very good. it has in common with Dimensional People that it feels long-form and ambitious, which makes me less likely to go back to it then the breezier late 90s stuff that made me fall in love with them. But once I make the commitment it definitely comes through
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
honestly after many spins I think their Top 5 are the three most recent + Ioara Tahiti and Autoditacker, idk in what order though
― frogbs, Sunday, 31 October 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link