Momus - Folktronic - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2010 from the eccentric Scottish singer, songwriter and musician. After a two-year foray into book-writing and contemporary art, Momus returns to pop with his strongest in over a decade. This time he's focused on what he calls Inchthe catnip factorInch. Just what is it that makes US want to play a great song over and over again on YouTube? What is it about some simple chords and rhymes that really gets under our skin and penetrates deep into our memory and emotion? After avoiding pop, or asking it to do things books and art can do better, Momus suddenly found himself, in the spring of 2010, playing his favorite songs on YouTube, drawing inspiration for new songs from them, recording the songs and making videos for them during marathon InchvideosongInch sessions, then uploading the results straight up to YouTube. Album Tracks 1. Hypnoprism 2. The Charm Song 3. Datapanik 4. Evil Genius 5. Mr Consistency 6. Deliverance 7. Is There S*x in Marriage? 8. Death Ruins Everything 9. Bubble Music 10. The Building Song 11. Confiance Absolue 12. Adoration 13. Strawberry Hill

Classic Momus. On par with his best work. 'Otto Spooky' is the 2005 album from Momus, otherwise known as Scotsman Nick Currie - perhaps the world's most infamous singer of electronic folk songs. American Patchwork. Album Tracks 1. Sempreverde 2. Life of the Fields 3. Corkscrew King 4. Klaxon 5. Robin Hood 6. Lady France Knickers 7. Lute Score 8. Belvedere 9. Your Fat Friend 10. Mr Ulysses 11. Water Song 12. Jesus in Furs 13. Bantam Toys 14. Cockle Pickers 15. The Artist Overwhelmed

2019 . Back in 1987 Momus was in a London studio finishing The Poison Boyfriend, his debut album for Creation Records. Band of Holy Joy had a session the next day, so the 27 year-old Scot left a note wishing his friends well and adding InchYou've got real accordions - I just use the horrible pre-programmed one in the DX7!Inch Thirty-two years later, now living in Berlin after a long spell in Japan, Momus finally purchased a real accordion from a junk shop on a street once split by the wall. Momus quickly discovered it's wide dynamic range, it's ability to stab, sob and wheeze and the ease with which chords could be pumped out using the buttons ranged down the lefthand side. Songs played on the new instrument (mixed in with sounds from the latest iPad apps) had a pleasing tendency to sound like Eisler's collaborations with Brecht during the late Weimar Republic years. Momus decided to make an album called Akkordion (the title mixes the German and English spellings) and drummed up sixteen new songs during the spookily hot summer. Many of them sound like garish clown music, political cabaret, surreal satire or radical vaudeville, with echoes of the accordion artists Momus knew in the neo-cabaret scene of 1980s London The Pogues, Les Negresses Vertes, The Tiger Lillies, even solo Marc Almond and Nick Cave. What defines Akkordion is this tension between the light and dark the bittersweet contrast between personal fulfilment and a political world dominated by division, toxicity and - let's face it - actual fascism. Like little Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum this accordion sends a scream through a world marred by disaccord. Album Tracks 1. The World of Night 2. What the Kite Thinks 3. The Poet 4. Lardybastard 5. People Are Turning to Gold 6. Grand Guignol 7. Self Help 8. Catman Finley 9. Couple Me 10. Dylanology 11. Facial Recognition 12. Sam