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2020 . InchThis is an amazingly intense moment for the whole of mankind and, for a marginal artist like me, an extraordinary opportunity to experience what everyone else is experiencing.Inch That's what Momus told the BBC in mid-April when they approached him for a statement about his album in progress, a documentation of his own experience of COVID-19. On March 16th, in lockdown in Berlin, Momus had begun recording a new album called Vivid. InchGoodbye everyone, it's a scary old world, but thanks for the rideInch, ran the lyric to Oblivion, a song whose rapid, phasing accordions evoked the post-minimalism of Steve Reich, Michael Nyman and Meredith Monk. The following day the Scottish songwriter came down with COVID-19 himself, and spent a week in bed, feverish and frightened. The infection passed without much damage, and Momus was able to resume work, completing fifteen tracks in just over a month. Songs like Working From Home, Self-Isolation, My Corona and Ten Foot Hut explore the odd mixture of fear and boredom that the pandemic has unleashed on us all the sense of being possessed by some kind of malign spirit, and the vague hope that a better world might emerge at the end of all this. There's even room for some dark humour in the form of a chilly, forensic cover of Tom Lehrer's epidemiological song I Got It From Agnes. Vivid - already hailed as one of the strongest Momus albums in years - is published simultaneously with Niche, a playful autobiography described by Publishers Weekly as Inchthat rare show-biz memoir that's both entertaining and a literary triumphInch. Album Tracks 1. Oblivion 2. Working from Home 3. Ten Foot Hut 4. September 5. Parasite 6. .Self-Isolation 7. Empty Paris 8. Movement 9. I Got It from Agnes 10. My Corona 11. Long Distance Love 12. Spring 13. Levitation 14. Fever Dream 15. Optimism
