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John Maus

John Maus is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he's fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the course of four defining albums since 2006. His music is retro-futurist yet deeply personal — with a cinematic quality, conjuring pathos through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and his deeply resonant vocal. In 2014, he was awarded a doctorate in Political Philosophy, then spent years building his own modular synthesizer from scratch. His albums We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (2011) and Screen Memories (2017) are regarded as experimental pop classics.