We Must Become Pitiless Censors of Ourselves is the third album, scheduled for release on June 27^th by Upset the Rhythm (June 28^th in the US on Ribbon Music). The album is as strange as it is interesting, combining melancholy vocals with synths and drum machines reminiscent of a soundtrack to a 80s movie. I find myself getting a strange impression when listening that is hard to put a finger on. It’s almost as if John Maus is a fictional character/artist in some dystopian novel or film, part of a weird otherworldly time where past and future are confused. SPIN describe him as ‘retro-futurist’, a term I find suitably contradicting for an album like ’We Must Become…’.

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