Idiology
- Mouse on Mars
- Band Name: Mouse on Mars
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Apr 24, 2001
- Summary: The German electro-experimenters return with a follow up to last year's 'Niun Niggung.'
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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96If the additions are what make this record distinctive, what's left out is what makes it brilliant.
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Even when it all threatens to implode, MOM's restless imagination provides the necessary ballast. [18 May 2001, p.81]
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90The new Idiology takes the acoustic experiments of Niun Niggung even further, and it's this combination of electronic and "traditional" music -- melding keyboards and synthesizers with french horns and guitars and trumpets into a seamless whole -- that points the way through the dead-ends of most electronica.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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maxk10Great record.
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