Momus -
"Circus Maximus"
[ Released on el / Cherry Red Records - el ACME 2CD - 1986 ]
MOMUS SAYS:
Momus (dressed in the barely-adequate flesh of a young Scottish graduate) sits in a rented room in Streatham, south London, strumming an acoustic guitar. He decides to rewrite the Bible. Defying his fundamentalist ancestors, he paints the lives of Old Testament saints like Lot and John The Baptist in nine shades of hell-fire red. They emerge self-interested, lascivious and ambitious. It is, after all, the 1980s.
PHESPIRIT SAYS:
A playful and bizarre debut album packed with wonderfully warped reworkings of Bible stories. The three 'extra tracks' at the end of the record are Momus translations of Jacques Brel songs. There is a marked contrast between the care and affection with which Momus handles Brel and the subversive slapping which he administers to Christianity. Fine stuff.
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