John Maus - Screen MemoriesThe inimitable John Maus returns with his fourth full length album,Screen Memories, Screen Memoriesopening track The Combine in which Maus intones with an apocalyptic stateliness,?Its going to dust us all to nothing, man. I see the combine coming.?The Combine sweeps through with a bracing baroque charm, all towering spires of glistening augmentation, swirling counterpoint and sonorous vocals Screen Memorieswas written, recorded, and engineered by Maus

By the time the album was recorded

released on Matador Records

The Walk 5

With his new songs

graphic design and (with this record as prime example) free jazz and avant-garde music

resolutely joyful

1991's Leisure belongs to a very different age

Arthur allied with Hazlewood

The blinkers are off and there‰۪s a whole new world to dig

From acid-folk and country-rock to pop-psych and soul

Let It Come Down

Rather than simply record a new selection of songs