“Only a band as creative as Mouse on Mars can release a disappointing album that's still very nearly great. Compared to the innumerable rows of drivel that constitute the "electronica" section of your neighborhood Sam Goody, *Niun Niggung* is a sharp realization of Kraftwerk's emotional man/machine promise. But when judged against the Mouse on Mars's finest work, namely the vinyl-only LPs *Instrume”