John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

John Mouse is a lofi supergroup lead by none other than the godfather of chillwave himself, Ariel Pink. The first thing I noticed about this album was the album art. Where did the pink sparkles go? That was one of my favorite things about the group. Here are the covers to the last two albums.

Now here is where I talk about the music. That's the most important part, right? The lead single off this album, "Rights for Gays" talks about how gay people aren't so bad and that they deserve the same respect as you and I (assuming all the readers of this blog are hetero males). I mean, I don't mind gay people or anything, but I don't like thinking about them or talking about them. Like, how do they have sex? I'm gonna stop thinking about it ahaha. (I realize I was just saying how much I loved pink sparkles, I assure you that I am very straight, no need to doubt it)

Okay, now that we've talked about that song we can move on to the rest of the album. There's this song called Head For the Country. It has lots of eighties synths and Ariel's deep voice crooning over it. Now that I think about it, this entire album has a lot of eighties synths! I think it's sort of chillwave.

After listening to it a little more, yep it's definitely chillwave. Sort of gives you a new perspective on the music. I think the vocals get swallowed up by the synths too much, but that's what you get with a chillwave album. This band has a knack for pushing pop music to the EXTREME. This is as intense as it gets, folks.

5/5 stars, I give this album the official Cool Music For Cool Guys "Cool New Music" Stamp of Approval. While I'm sure lots of lame guys are listening to this album and attending the shows, I think there is room for cool guys too!