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Idiology

by Mouse On Mars

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2000's

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2001

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Overall Rating: 3.1002 Idiology is ranked overall as 3.1002 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2057 Idiology has an avg. critic score of 3.2057 out of 4 stars

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Even when it all threatens to implode, MOM's restless imagination provides the necessary ballast

PopMatters

The 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. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Cologne based duo Mouse On Mars were never ones to approach things from a normal angle, and they're not about to start now on this new album for Domino. The video for 'Actionist Respoke', their current single is ample proof of that. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

"I am convinced that the term 'I the self' is idiological and can be dispensed with," the defiant vocoder-voice sings on the first track of Idiology, the new Mouse on Mars longplayer. ...more

All Music Guide

While their peers in the field of electronic music continued to either overshoot experimentally (resulting in radical, unlistenable work) or make the same records over and over again, German duo Mouse on Mars pumped out radical, intriguing work by the ...more

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Pitchfork

If the additions are what make this record distinctive, what's left out is what makes it brilliant....read the complete review at Pitchfork

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner continue to create soundscapes that blur the line between programming and live musicianship, and sometimes between Earth and outer space....read the complete review at The Onion (A.V. Club)

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The A.V. Club

The relatively mainstream embrace of Mouse On Mars' last album, Niun Niggung , signaled a wider acceptance of programmed music coming out of the vast underground that percolates below critical darlings like Underworld and Orb. It helped that the disc...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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