Lithops
Ye Viols!

Jan St. Werner always seems to use his Lithops moniker as a conceptual clearing house, fleshing out new ideas on record as he hashes out the ever-shif...

Chicago and London based label Thrill Jockey are on a good streak lately; the vein they’ve struck takes a cross section straight through independent m...

Mouse on Mars has been quite cantankerous of late. After the hyper-alert extravagance of 2004?s Radical Connector, the duo switched on the jackhammer ...

In broad terms, the expertly-marshalled fantasias of krautrockers like Neu! and Can might be seen as advocates for the former camp, striving for the s...

When done properly, live collaborations between visual and audio artists are something special, possessed of the irreplaceable energy of a multi-sensu...

Call it that sense of impoverishment that makes Lithops’ temporary and rare rhythmic slurry a feast of water drank in a desert. Call it true dissonanc...

What machines say when they think no one?s aroundIt?s likely that the overt spatial qualities of the compositions collected on this disc from Jan St. ...

Two albums were released in 2006 by Lithops, the solo project of Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner. The first was Queries in June, a collection of singles...

Upon Googling “Lithops” for more information about Ye Viols!, several results appeared, none of which had anything to do with the album. Apparently, L...