Watch New Video For Mouse on Mars' "Polaroyced"

Mouse on Mars’ Parastrophics, their first new album in six years, is out this week on Monkeytown Records. While working on album track “Polarocyed,” Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Wernerand Andi Toma watched Youtube clips of American jumpstyle dancer, Gold Inferno, and decided, if they ever made a video for this song, Mr. Inferno would be the ideal hero. So, they attempted to contact him via MySpace (no luck) and via friends in his hometown of LA (they got as close as reaching his sister), but in the end, Gold Inferno remained untouchable. Eventually, they were introduced to filmmaker Jan Bitzer who had a post-production video company called Polynoid and asked if he’d like to make a video about Gold Inferno. He too could not reach the mysterious Gold Inferno, however, he found a dancer called Anthony, gave him a golden wrestler mask, made a 3D model of the video’s supporting actor, the French Bulldog, and thus, the video for “Polaroyced” was brought to fruition. After premiering album track, “Polaroyced” with a “Best New Track” last week, Pitchfork premiered the accompanying video earlier today. Check it out with the link below.

“if the textures and beats are winking and mischievous, the overall sense of musical structure is dead serious and, ultimately, virtuosic. The songs grow, change, build, and resolve, and never stay in one place for long. They are surprising, filled with non sequiturs that tend to accrue logic with repeated listens . . . The peculiar genius of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma is that they make all these things sound like they could come from no one else. The fact that they are still doing it 18 years after their first album, and still capable of making some of the best music of their career, is inspiring” – Mark Richardson, Pitchfork

“Parastrophics is a deep dive into the duo’s headspace and it’s just as convoluted and colorful as ever . . . when Mouse on Mars are able to fuse their exasperating experimentation with a headstrong beat, it’s like the best party you’ve ever been to.” – Jon Pruett, FILTER

“Never neglecting accessibility, they superimpose wavering degrees of filtered, edged resonance, thickening collaged harmonics into a dilated aggregate.” – Tony Ware, Electronic Musician

Mouse on Mars’ Tour Dates:

March 2 – Berlin, DE @ Columbia Club

March 3 – Cologne, DE @ E-Werk

April 4 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie

April 5 – Geneva, CH @ Electron Festival

April 6 – Zurich, CH @ Exil

April 12 – Munich, DE @ Backstage

April 13 – Florence, IT @ Marino Marini Museum

April 14 – Blogna, IT @ Locomotiv Club

April 20 – London, UK @ Village Underground

April 27 – Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefaehrlich

April 29 – Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur

May 18 – Lyon, FR @ Nuit Sonores Festival

May 19 – Brussels, BE @ Orangerie @ Les Nuits Du Botanique

June 15 – Barcelona, ES @ Sonar

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