Published
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 18:00
- Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars will release a solo album next year.
Jan St. Werner, AKA one-half of Mouse On Mars, will release a new album under his solo moniker Lithops early next year.
Far more experimental than even his work with Andi Toma, Lithops sees St. Werner exploring the boundaries of sound design, often eschewing things like recognizable beats and melodies in the process. Ye Viols!, the producer's upcoming album, promises to be more of the same, with "Bacchus" turning into a wall of noise over the course of its four-and-a-half minute length and "Wammo" shuddering its way to an equally as weighty climax of indeterminate sound. ("Handed," meanwhile, has a nice batch of melodies to call its own.) Thrill Jockey, showing us up in the verbiage department, terms it "background noise for a visual utopia: a recombined industrial iconography of spatial adventures, futuristic collages and phantasmagoric scenes." Either way, you'll be able to decide for yourself soon.
Tracklisting
01. Graf
02. Handed
03. Sebquenz
04. 21 Jhrdt
05. In Nitro
06. Apps 1
07. Apps 2
08. Bacchus
09. Penrose Ave
10. Inductech
11. Wammo
Thrill Jockey will release Lithops' Ye Viols! in January 2009.