{"id":675651,"date":"2026-09-06T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:53:14","slug":"mouse-on-mars-jan-st-werner-taps-justin-vernon-and-sufjan-stevens-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675651\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse on Mars\u2019 Jan St. Werner Taps Justin Vernon and Sufjan Stevens for New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan St. Werner, AKA one-half of the German electronic duo Mouse on Mars<\/a>, has a new solo record on the way. Squares Will Fall, due out November 13 on Thrill Jockey<\/a>, features contributions from Sufjan Stevens<\/a>, Justin Vernon<\/a>, Beirut<\/a>\u2019s Zach Condon, the National<\/a>\u2019s Ben Lanz, and more. You can listen to an excerpt of the title track, which Vernon contributed lyrics and vocals to, below.<\/p>\n

As a Bandcamp bio explains, the genesis of \u201cSquares Will Fall\u201d dates back to 2012, when Werner recorded a 30-minute version of the piece to celebrate a friend\u2019s 30th birthday. Over the years, it evolved into \u201cthe foundation for an improvisation by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Jan St. Werner during Mouse on Mars\u2019s Dimensional People<\/a> sessions at Vernon\u2019s studio in Wisconsin.\u201d In 2021, Werner also presented \u201cSquares Will Fall\u201d as a live performance piece at the Ural Industrial Biennial. Different parts of the composition played through speakers that \u201cwere suspended via long ropes from the circus ceiling and were continuously repositioned by the performers, becoming active participants in the mixing process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The larger tracklist includes two more songs: \u201cSwamp Brains,\u201d which features singer Rosanne Rubino, and \u201cFl\u00f6totto,\u201d on which Stevens plays the drum machine and Lanz handles trombone and bass. Werner\u2019s most recent solo release, Space Synthesis, arrived in 2023.<\/p>\n

Read Philip Sherburne\u2019s review of Mouse on Mars\u2019 2021 album AAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Mouse<\/p>\n

Squares Will Fall:
01 Squares Will Fall
02 Swamp Brains
03 Fl\u00f6totto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan St. Werner, AKA one-half of the German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, has a new solo record…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[1735,18,117,19,17,337,340],"class_list":["post-675651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117225377382853595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}