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i dont know, i listen to momus for vocals and lyrics, and all of this "deconstruction" and found sound ruins it for me, i will have to listen to it a few times, since maybe im not just getting it, but i am really disappointed (esp. the song a little schubert, b/c i heard it live and it was a moving and not really prententious lovely peice of leider and now its in german and too sentimental and then this break down starts midway thru)

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 1 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

is momus even worth listening to anymore?

I gave up hope completely after the little red songbook

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 1 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

folktronic is my favourite album by him, and that was last year.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the cool thing about momus is that he's no lazybones so you know he's probably working on 3 records right now. one of which has to be a tender poppy synthy album full of well delivered vocals and brill lyrics.

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

brill lyrics

I think that was Pomus hahaha

― Aaron A., Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm enjoying this momus album more than any album for some time. doesn't have that sense of awkwardness that's been there since 'ping pong' - my favourites since then have been songs besides the vaudevillian, '2am', 'hippy analog portapak revolution'.
what's struck me most was listening to 'my sperm is not your enemy'. in old tender pervert days, such as;
"who controls the sperm of men
controls the world"
would have been a sharp and alarming resolution at the close of some story. it's almost an apology here. 'spooky kabuki' on the other hand, is excellent! it narrates the rest of the album as 'the angels are voyeurs', a sly and pale introduction. too many subsequent lyrics, though, have a bluntness, where in such as 'bishonen' ("now i work in merchant banks, i'm well liked by senior ranks...") it's all a hall of mirrors.

― matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

and if it wasnt marred by a bunch of electronic baroque plaster cherubs and superflat false saints it could have worked.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the deconstructions. little snippets and fractions left in, brings whgat's left out right to the fore.

― matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I sometimes think my problem (and blessing) is that I stay young, but my audience doesn't. If only I could stuff you all in bottles and make you bonsai puppies, so you'd be young and adventurous forever!

My tales forever wagging your dog. Peter Pavlov Pan!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they put extra self-satisfaction in the water in Berlin?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i have to say that this is easily my favorite momus cd and i think the "deconstructions/reproductions" help a lot!

i have a friend from Singapore who said she bought the Little Red Song Book a year ago and was really excited to hear it after she read the lyrics, but was put off by the music. I let her borrow Oskar friday, so i'm waiting to hear what she thinks of this one... maybe it is time for another crowd to discover Momus

― dan rukas (dan rukas), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

'spooky kabuki' struck me as something of art and creativity sucking a man into ambitions it can never quite satisfy. or perhaps just resistence to the artist. but, it's about pirates! 'multiplying love', on the other hand, is an idea without a medium. much as much momus music of the last few years, there seems a little reluctance to flesh something out, to give its ideas a forename. also, there seems a concern to make the music very simple.. not simple. very naive. as if a knowing tune may distract from the lyric.

but, i maintain 'spooky kabuki' is the best momus song i've heard in years. the elements all bond in a way that doesn't sustain thinking about.

― matthew james (matthew james), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus is the most satisfying cottage industry ever. My iPod never sounded so good.

― maria b (maria b), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they put extra self-satisfaction in the water in Berlin?

To hell with the water supply in Berlin, I'm high from being at number 40 in DJ Martian's Top 100 albums of 2003!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(i really like it - it's on now - but still cannot help replacing bits of track five with lyrics to 'every sperm is sacred')

(ahem ahem someone owes me an email)

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus: number 40 in a chart. Is this a new record? Oh, hang on, it's in alphabetical order. If you'd called yourself Artemis or Ariadne, you could have been right up there. I haven't received the new album yet: in the UK, it's just out, but if you get into any more legal trouble, my cheque books at the ready.

― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing that appeals to me the most about this album over any of the others is that it truly exists in its own sound world, where every single atom of production maps out an elaborate headphone fantasy. I think the Momus records since LRSB each did this to an extent, but here it's ambiguous and much more subtle and very intoxicating.

I know people who have heard Momus and didn't really care for him but they like to listen to Oskar in the car mainly because of the sound of the record (and of course the melodies and lyrics go well with the sounds). Its a much more 'visual' record. I keep thinking of Cornelius's Fantasma and how it seemed like less of a record and more of a recorded film sequence. Oskar is set inside a mysterious tavern off the coast of some unknown island floating above Europe and Asia. It's dark and robots putter away marionette versions of these strange old songs and pirates stay and listen for a while before heading out to sea in their rocket-powered ships.

If anyone has ever played Monkey Island 2 and remembers the way the bar looks in the first part of the game, that's pretty close.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(Btw, for any Super Madrigal Bros. readers, I'd like to say that we've both been working on new stuff and I want to apologize for not updating the website in so long, but I promise I will soon. Our house lost its internet connection in late December and...erm...an uncooperative roomate here, a failed plot to steal cable access from a house down the street there, etc. etc.)

(Btw2, time for a new genre: PhonePunk!)

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck! I shouldn't have pre-ordered it from Amazon. I'm probably not gonna hear it for weeks yet!

phil

― phil jones (interstar), Saturday, 8 March 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Found it today in Winchester's HMV - bought alongside Nick Heyward's 'North of a Miracle' and Alf Hurum's 'Sincere Hoskins'. Momus' new album is brilliant. I Love it.

― Ham Goodge, Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ok hearing it again, its growing on me, liking spooky kabuki.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Momus is the most satisfying cottage industry ever. My iPod never sounded so good.

― Dec, Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:16 (twenty years ago)

And does Ant agree with you?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Keep a-rubbin' this here genie-bottle and I shall keep appearing with fodder for iPods!

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

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