My New Album (Do Not Read This If You Hate Me)

In between those two facts all my pleasure negotiates. It's like a record I dreamed (I literally did dream one of the songs) then woke up to find actually existed. In the dream, it was like all my old records, but somehow freshened and radicalised by weird splicings, ultra-daring structures, surreal lyrics and melodies. It finds itself at some sort of formalist forefront, which is not where Momus records usually are, but certainly where I want them to be.

What does it sound like? Well, imagine Tom Waits' 'Blood Money' album remixed and restructured by DAT Politics. Or imagine the last Bjork if she'd already been deep inside Matthew Barney's world and had really let Matmos apply the scalpel rather than just tick and tinker at the edges of her sound.

Please, when it comes out early next year, do listen to this album if you hate me.

What you're hearing here is from the early comedy / porno part of the album's spectrum, which goes quite dark and serious towards the end. My song was radically restructured by John Talaga, the 'reproducer'. The 8 bit coda is by Adam Bruneau and will form part of a 'ringtone cycle' at the end of the record. (Adam and John are both in Super Madrigal Brothers, who I release on my US label American Patchwork.)

I think that informing people about other artists is a very important thing for an artist to do, and it is great to know of another artist who does so!

I usually get 'Novemberitis' but this year I'm feeling like my personal cloud will carry me through it.

Oi! You said that 18 months ago...which would mean ignoring Folktronic, which I'm not sure I want to do. Seriously, where to start? Is there anything to be gained by getting chronlolgical on yo' ass? And is this even possible? (ie. what's been deleted, and what should I be able to find without too much bother in, er, any record shop of repute in Sydney?)

The 8 or so Creation albums are getting hard to find since the demise of Creation Records, so only the foolhardy would advance in chronological order. There is a good possibility that Sony will allow Cherry Red / Analog Baroque, my current UK label, to release all the old Creation stuff in the next year or so. They've already given the go-ahead for a Best Of The Creation Years compilation to come out on Analog Baroque next year, entitled 'Forbidden Software Timemachine'. That, plus the 2003 album 'Oskar Tennis Champion' (March release) would be good starting points.

I also still like the last few albums back to 1997: 'Ping Pong', 'The Little Red Songbook', 'Stars Forever' and 'Folktronic'. Perhaps the latter two are more widely available and better. Stars Forever is a double which could be slimmed down to one indispensible CD and one dispensible CD.

ooh. name names. i want people to come hunting for refunds.

BTW, excellently weird new song Mr Currie!

fantasy tracklist :

* platinum
* xmas on earth
* how do you find my sister ?
* the cabriolet
* cibachrome blue
* hairstyle of the devil
* 3rd party, fire and theft
* closer to you

* gatecrasher
* the homosexual ( my favourite songwords
of all time when i was 19)
* monsters of love
* virtual reality
* trans siberian express
* rhetoric (the one i play to people who'd probably hate
a lot of the earlier stuff, or who have never heard of momus
who then always say 'hey who's this ?', i think even my mum would
like this song)
* a dull documentary
* spacewalk

i fantasised that *someone* in the recent mojo 'heroes' article
(for their 100th edition) would be shown holding a framed picture
of momus, but it wasn't to be.

Like a misheard lyric, your work computer downloaded the file you subconsciously wanted to hear. And no matter how many times you now hear the 'correct' version, it will always have a touch of 'full fathom five' about it in your mind, no?

Do you ever take your cloak of anonymity to the cleaners?

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