Hailed as the progenitor of hypnagogic pop, John Maus has developed a cult following as a synth-obsessed outsider artist whose work is both futuristic and steeped in the past. His compositions tend to employ the use of particular modal scales previously associated with Renaissance and medieval music, all the while exploring postmodern anxieties. At his Coney Island show during the Red Bull Music Festival in New York, his apocalyptic visions come to life onstage.
