I like to think of Mouse on Mars as an electronic punk band, because their approach to music is equally as provocative, destructive and fragmentary – it just so happens they prefer to use electronic sound as their medium rather than guitars and drums.

This presents a problem to me, as I initially warmed to electronic music for the exact opposite reasons, enjoying more than anything its functionality and purity; revelling in its tightly-sequenced melodious structures.

Even the more experimental electronic acts sometimes struggle to break away and provide anything other than an orderly form of chaos, yet Mouse on Mars have somehow managed to consistently throw the rule book out the window, despite being lazily lumped into the world of glitch/IDM.

With Parastrophics, MOM are as unpredictable as ever, providing 13 tracks of uncompromising, avant-garde techno ‘pop’ (in its very loosest sense). The instrumentation often sounds carpeted in metaphorical itching powder as the loopy arrangements blaze a dotty trail of unrelenting noise shrapnel, with Jan St Werner and Andi Toma providing intermittent vocal scrawls.

Often sounding like it was recorded in a bedroom or basement, the production is deliberately rough around the edges, ideas deliberately malformed and melodies deliberately undernourished. It’s really left to the listener to fill in the dots, although one wonders under what environment Parastrophics can be truly enjoyed – other than on a schizophrenic drug binge.

I try to understand Mouse on Mars, despite not feeling the necessity of having to, but don’t try to like the music for the sake of pretending to – nothing warrants that sort of pretentious critique. I’ll just close by saying that each and every track is indivisible from another, frenetic and often irritating, and repeat plays do little to provide a coherent pathway.

However, if you enjoy throwing shapes to smashed 303s, squirming snares and bludgeoned, primordial electronics, then, for as long as you don’t want to analyse it, Parastrophics at least deserves attention.