Ο Αμερικανός μουσικός, συνθέτης και ακαδημαϊκός John Maus, είκοσι χρόνια και επτά άλμπουμ μετά την έναρξη της καριέρας του, θα κυκλοφορήσει το καινούργιο του άλμπουμ, με τίτλο Later Than You Think, στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 μέσα από τη νέα του δισκογραφική YOUNG.
Tο άλμπουμ, που αποτελεί το πιο υπερβατικό έργο του μέχρι σήμερα, εξερευνά θέματα όπως η θλίψη, η δικαιοσύνη, η αναγέννηση, η μεταμόρφωση και ο πνευματικός πόλεμος — ενώνοντας μια εξομολογητική και συγκρουσιακή δημιουργία: μια ηχητική μεταφυσική, όπου το συναίσθημα, η διανόηση και το πνεύμα συναντιούνται αναζητώντας το όμορφο, την αλήθεια και το πραγματικό.
Παράλληλα, ο Maus κυκλοφόρησε το κομμάτι που ανοίγει το άλμπουμ, “Because We Built It”, ένα τραγούδι που εκφράζει ποιητικά και αιχμηρά το βάρος της συλλογικής ενοχής και την ανάγκη για ριζική μεταμόρφωση των άδικων συστημάτων. Αν το πρώτο single , “I Hate Antichrist”, έδειχνε τον Maus σε πνευματική αντιπαράθεση, αυτό το νέο τραγούδι ακολουθεί το μονοπάτι της λογοδοσίας και τα πρώτα βήματα ανασυγκρότησης.
Οι ηχογραφήσεις και η παραγωγή πραγματοποιήθηκαν στα Ozarks του Μισούρι. Το Later Than You Think αποτελείται από 16 κομμάτια και περιλαμβάνει αντιθέσεις και αντιφάσεις – το πλούσιο και το λιτό, το ιερό και το βέβηλο, την αυστηρότητα του μινιμαλισμού και την υπερβολή του μαξιμαλισμού, την αντίστιξη και την απλή pop αρμονία. Στην καρδιά του, το άλμπουμ επιβεβαιώνει τη δέσμευση του John Maus απέναντι στη ριζοσπαστική ειλικρίνεια και τη συναισθηματική αλήθεια σε μια εποχή αποξένωσης.
Ο Maus έχει χαρακτηριστεί ως “pop star φιλόσοφος” και “αναλογικός φουτουριστής” για τον τρόπο με τον οποίο συγχωνεύει την ακαδημαϊκή αυστηρότητα με την lo-fi synth-pop αισθητική. Με τα πέντε προηγούμενα άλμπουμ του — Songs (2006), Love Is Real (2007), We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011), Screen Memories (2017) και Addendum (2018) — ο Maus έχει χαράξει μια μοναδική πορεία, όπου η ειρωνεία, η θλίψη, η χαρά και το παράλογο συνυπάρχουν, κερδίζοντας μια φανατική βάση κοινού. Στο Later Than You Think, ο Maus δεν επιστρέφει απλώς — αντιπαρατίθεται, εξομολογείται και μεταμορφώνεται. Το αποτέλεσμα δεν είναι μόνο το καθοριστικό έργο της καριέρας του, αλλά και μια σπάνια καλλιτεχνική προσφορά: μια πράξη που τολμά να πιστέψει στο νόημα, την ομορφιά και τη δυνατότητα της υπέρβασης.
JOHN MAUS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
LATER THAN YOU THINK
OUT SEPTEMBER 26 ON YOUNG
Global Tour Dates Announced For Fall 2025
On September 26th, 2025, two decades and seven albums into his career, American musician, composer, and academic John Maus will release his most transcendent work yet: Later Than You Think. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare – coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful, the truth and the real.
Today Maus shares the opening track from the album, “Because We Built It,” a song that poetically and pointedly expresses the burden of collective guilt and the need for radical transformation of unjust systems. If the project’s first single, “I Hate Antichrist,” found Maus in spiritual confrontation, this new track follows the road to reckoning and the glimmers of reconstruction.
In support of Later Than You Think, Maus will embark on a 45-day tour across North America and Europe, performing headline shows and appearing at several major festivals including C2C (Turin), End of the Road (UK), and MIRA (Barcelona). Embracing imperfection and emotional rawness, Maus’ live performances are acts of radical embodiment – leaning into a postmodern sincerity that feels increasingly vital in a culture stalled by irony and apathy. Full list of dates below.
Written, produced, and recorded in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri, Later Than You Think spans 16 tracks and contains multitudes – the lush and the bare, the sacred and the profane, minimalist discipline and maximalist indulgence, counterpoint and simple pop harmony. At its core, the album reaffirms John Maus’ commitment to radical sincerity and emotional truth in an age of alienation. Powered by confrontation, faith and transformation – driven by the urgent belief that meaning still matters, and time is of the essence.
Later Than You Think: A Biography on John Maus
Holding a degree in experimental music from CalArts and a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii, Maus has been dubbed a “philosopher pop star” and “analog futurist” for the way he merges academic rigor with lo-fi synth-pop aesthetics. His influence spans genres and generations—from UK grime icon Skepta, who sampled his track “I’m Only Human,” and Gen-Z rapper nettspend, to filmmaker Josh Safdie, actor Natasha Lyonne, and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. His track “Cop Killer” features in the 2025 film Friendship, underscoring his continued relevance across high and low culture.
With five previous albums under his belt – Songs (2006), Love Is Real (2007), We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011), Screen Memories (2017) and Addendum (2018) – Maus has carved out a singular path where irony, grief, joy, and absurdity can coexist and gained a cult following along the way. On Later Than You Think Maus doesn’t just return—he confronts, confesses, and transforms. The result is not only a career-defining work, but a rare artistic offering: one that dares to believe in meaning, beauty, and the possibility of transcendence
Later Than You Think is available to pre-order now as Standard Black LP, Limited Blue Hour Edition LP and CD and to pre-save on all digital platforms. Out September 26, 2025 worldwide.
John Maus
Later Than You Think
September 26, 2025
1. Because We Built It
2. Disappears
3. Reconstruct Your Life
4. Shout
5. Came & Got
6. I Hate Antichrist
7. Theotokos
8. Let The Time Fly
9. Out Of Time
10. Tous Les Gens Qui Sont Ici Sont D’ici
11. Tonight
12. Let Me Through
13. Water
14. Pick Me Up
15. Losing Your Mind
16. Adorabo
*Newly announced NA and Europe dates bolded below
June 2025
June 24 – Landmark – Bergen, Norway
June 25 – Oceanen – Gothenburg, Sweden *SOLD OUT
June 27 – This Is Not A Love Song (Festival) – Nîmes, France
June 29 – Fusion (Festival) – Lärz, Germany
July 2025
July 15 – Sonsdenit 25 – Pollença, Spain
July 20 – Dour (Festival) – Dour, Belgium
July 31 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, New York *SOLD OUT
August 2025
August 6 – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever – Los Angeles, California *SOLD OUT
August 21 – Trädgården – Stockholm, Sweden
August 23 – Rock en Seine (Festival) – Paris, France
August 28 – Hayfilm Cluster, Yerevan, Armenia
August 31 – End of the Road (Festival) – Dorset, England
September 2025
September 2 – Estonian National Museum – Tartu, Estonia
September 3 – Vagonu Hall – Riga, Latvia
September 4 – Kablys – Vilnius, Lithuania
September 6 – Extreme Chill (Festival) – Reykjavík, Iceland
September 9 – Akvárium Klub – Budapest, Hungary
September 10 – Vintage Industrial – Zagreb, Croatia
September 11 – Zappa Barka – Belgrade, Serbia
September 13 – Plissken (Festival) – Athens, Greece
September 26 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
September 28 – Green Room – Minneapolis, MN
September 29 – Outset – Chicago, IL
September 30 – The Loving Touch – Ferndale, MI
October 2025
October 1 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
October 3 – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
October 6 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
October 7 – The Broadberry – Richmond, VA
October 8 – The Underground – Charlotte, NC
October 9 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
October 11 – Conduit – Winter Park, FL
October 12 – Gramps – Miami, FL
October 14 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
October 15 – Empire Control Room & Garage – Austin, TX
October 16 – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall – Dallas, TX
October 18 – Insideout – Albuquerque, NM
October 19 – Walter Studios – Phoenix, AZ
October 20 – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
October 22 – The Belasco – Los Angeles, CA
October 23 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
October 25 – The Wall at AREA15 – Las Vegas, NV
November 2025
November 1 – C2C Festival – Turin, Italy
November 3 – O2 Kentish Town Forum – London, UK
November 4 – Academy 2 – Manchester, UK
November 5 – Simple Things – Bristol, UK
November 7 – MIRA Festival – Barcelona, Spain
November 8 – Capitólio – Lisbon, Portugal
November 10 – Plaza – Zurich, Switzerland
November 12 – TRIX – Antwerp, Belgium
November 14 – L’Aéronef – Lille, France
November 15 – Espace Julien – Marseille, France
November 17 – Kwadrat – Kraków, Poland
November 18 – Oczki – Warsaw, Poland
November 19 – CBE – Cologne, Germany
November 20 – 013 – Tilburg, Netherlands
November 22 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23 – Astra – Berlin, Germany
November 24 – Uebel & Gefährlich – Hamburg, Germany
November 26 – Stereolux – Nantes, France
November 27 – L’Étage – Rennes, France
November 29 – Le Cargo – Caen, France
December 2025
December 2 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark
December 4 – TBA – Paris, France
December 6 – Button Factory – Dublin, Ireland
December 9 – Òran Mór Auditorium – Glasgow, UK
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