Radical Connector
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Up until Radical Connector, the human voice was deployed by Mouse On Mars in irregular fashion, predominantly as just one part of a multi-faceted audioscape. On this album, voice is the focal point, and the nine songs here strike a compelling balance between pop song, electronica experiment, and club contouring. With drummer Dodo Nkishi and guest Niobe on vocal duties, the album sits together smartly; what’s surprising, perhaps, is just how comfortable Mouse On Mars sound in this terrain. They’re a group of deliberation but also wild unpredictability — what best to do, some eight albums into your career, than produce a glittery, catchy collection of dance-pop candyfloss? The songs with Niobe are the most surprising — “Send Me Shivers” is tech-house gone haywire, coasting with glitterball delirium; “Spaceship” is a Basement Jaxx-esque cut-up; “Evoke An Object” sets Niobe’s voice atop a skybound fleet of multi-coloured, vectoring shuttlecraft.