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Rost Pocks: The EP Collection

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While their albums were clearly the duo’s main focus, Mouse On Mars also released a stretch of excellent satellite EPs across 1994 to 1997, the period when they were signed to English independent label Too Pure. They’re compiled here on the punningly-named Rost Pocks: The EP Collection (post rock, geddit?) and they tell a complementary story about the breadth of the duo’s vision. The scuttling jungle-dub of “Bib” and “Maus Mobil” is here, as are two mixes of the twee-tronics of “Saturday Night”; dig deeper, though, and you’ll find gems like the woozy, hallucinatory “Schnee Bud”, the itchy, untethered avant-tronica of “7000” and “Amiga Home”, and the waterlogged exotica of “Cache Coeur Naif”, where Mouse On Mars are joined by Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen of Stereolab. If you can’t find the original EPs, this’ll get you bang up to date.

Jon Dale

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