Momus -
"Folktronic"
[ Released on Le Grand Magistery Records - HRH-020 - February 2001 ]
MOMUS SAYS:
In the year 2000, Momus moved from London to New York, held a one-man show in a Chelsea art gallery, lectured, sang and danced around the world, wrote a whole bunch of essays on his website and cut an album of 'plastic folk'. On 'Folktronic', with typical pleasure in perverse juxtaposition, he's decided to combine analog electronics with folk songs. Hideously pompous baroque keyboard licks of 80s synthpop climb into bed with fakely traditional ballads, jigs and sea shanties; mock prog epics full of tempo and key changes collide with neo-vaudeville numbers on the subject of the penis; eulogies to decadent Roman emperors rub shoulders with passages of Bach played by cartoon fiddle yokels through massive ring modulation. It's those prolific medieval songwriters Trad. and Anon. finding the missing link between unicorns and Unix.
PHESPIRIT SAYS:
Momus releases his finest album since the classic Ping Pong. The 'fake folk' that he peddles works best on Appalachia and Tape Recorder Man, but struggles somewhat meagrely in between. The best of C-21st Momus is crammed into the latter half: Heliogabalus and Pygmalism are magnificent examples of all that makes Momus great, whilst Going For A Walk With A Line is his five year high water mark.
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