Niun Niggung

Niun Niggung is the sixth album by the German band Mouse on Mars. It was first released on Domino Records early 2000. Later it was re-released on the U.S. label Thrill Jockey.

The U.S. version of the album has a different tracklist and includes three bonus tracks. Among the guest musicians on the album included the musician Markus Türk.

Style

New ways of relating to the instrumentation are Stylistically to Niun Niggung trodden. For the first time used Mouse on Mars beside electronic instruments and guitars, violins and wind instrument in the recordings for the album. This style was on the following album Idiology (2001) further deepened. The band experimented on this album more and more with deconstructions, sound union resolutions, Power Electronics and Easy Listening.

Chart positions

The album spent a week at # 76 of the German album charts.

Reception

The album largely received positive reviews. Lars Meier Eick of laut.de wrote however:

" [ I can ] not explain why they are equal to bury their partially interesting approaches again under a gigantic mountain sound waste. I can provide this plate only with the attribute super annoying and hope it stays a solitary slip. At most, with ... " Pinwheel Herman " and "Supersonic fadeout " they can still carry on a grand class. "

The plate with loud Eick Meier such musical waste received in the review of the sound - editing one of five stars. In the readers' vote on laut.de the album, however, received a perfect score.

Mark Richardsan from the Internet magazine Pitchfork Media wrote in 2000:

" Niun Niggung is a sharp realization of the emotional man-machine promise of power plant. But if you [ the album ] to the best work of " Mouse on Mars", namely the LPs " instrumental" and " glam ", compares, this is just a fun and technically good performance. Although they are capable of transcendental beauty, these Germans want currently just have fun. " "

Richardsan gave the plate 7.9 out of 10.

John Bush wrote in allmusic:

" The vision of the duo regarding techno is on Niun Niggung inimitable perfectionist, but structurally chaotic and surprisingly organic: it's electronic dance music, produced by robotic miners. " "

Bush gave the plate four out of five stars.

The album is album of the year 1999, the British avant-garde magazine The Wire.

Tracklist

All songs are by Jan St. Werner and Andy Toma. The drummer Dodo nkishi was not active on this board as a songwriter.