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Mouse on Mars “HYM”

Mouse on Mars are brilliant at taking electronic textures and making them sound incredibly tactile, with sudden shifts and clangs in the music triggering the sensation of velocity or impact. “HYM,” one of the most song-y tracks on WOW, packs enough musical ideas into four minutes to last about half a proper album. The super-compression of the composition may seem like attention deficit disorder, but I take it as both an expression of raw excitement and economical precision. It’s fun to hear these veterans absorb some tricks from dubstep too – it seems a bit sly, but also totally natural. They’ve been on this creative wavelength for a long time now.

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