“*Huh?* That was my first response, in late 2004, when I saw that Mark E. Smith had lent his signature talky vocals to two remixes of Mouse on Mars' "Wipe That Sound" for a 12-inch. His pinched rants ripped apart the sugary pop buzz that Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma had conjured on the MES-free original version, which had appeared a few months earlier on the duo's *Radical Connector* LP. They'd tak”
