Man Man

The idiosyncratic Los Angeles act draw on Krautrock, Italo-disco, oddball prog, and the films of Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder for a wildly entertaining art-pop romp.

A revived sense of purpose washes through Man Man’s 'Carrot on Strings', radiating a mix of calm and confidence. Kattner always embodied a wild-man pied-piper vibe: his melodic, unhinged art-rock was at once intriguing and angsty. He was so alluringly creative that you went along with it, even if you were never sure where Man Man would take you. Carrot on Strings is no less inventive, but its ethos is radical in context of the band’s two-decade career. “When I was younger, I would feed off of chaos. I would, you know, be upset and get drunk and smash chairs,” Kattner explains. “Now those chairs are in my head: It's less of an outward projection, more of an interior monologue.”