New Joemus album announced!

[imomus]

Life would be no fun without contrasts, which is why I think a mega-trad Momus album of early 1950s-style torch ballads would be all the more intriguing if the slowies were mixed in with the digital beats mayhem of a splattercore master like, oh, perhaps Joe Howe from Glasgow's Gay Against You. That way you'd have the trad and the avant on one record; traditional expressivity together with radical formal experimentation. Big ballads and mad beats. The best of pop, in other words.

As it happens, Joe is readying a new Germlin album (that's his solo project) just now -- you can hear tracks on his MySpace page -- and last week he asked me to supply vocals for an 8-bit glam stomper teetering on the precipice of insanity. I came back with a Scottish nursery rhyme chant and a new mid-section sung by some kind of deranged Anthony Newley character locked in a planetarium. This is what it sounds like:

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After Joe's album Thrash'r comes out on ADAADAT, he'll be working -- in Berlin and Glasgow -- on the new Momus album (or do we call it Joemus?) with me. I think you can get a good feel of the record's contrasts if I put the Cliff cover I did last week next to the new Germlin track:

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All we need now is for Gay Against You to announce they're producing Sir Cliff Richard's next album.

Comments

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

YEAH, BUT, YEAH BUT how samey does everything have to become before I'm legitimately allowed to say "I'm tired of this?" I'm not even arguing for "Progression of Culture through boundary pushing" ala Modernism, Its just a personal boredom. Nothing more.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's pretty bizarre how you're lumping Glaswegians who dress like ghost pixies and make music that sounds like melted Nintendo consoles with Shoreditch hoodie guitar band types!

WhatEVAH, Kuma!

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

I'm not out to hate on them, I'm sure theyre nice lads. but go to Adaadat's website, or Gay Against You's myspace and tell me you can't see a general meme being replicated. It's more of an aesthetic than a music thing, I honestly don't mind their music, some of its quite good.

This isn't a retro-necro argument stemming from anxieties that youth culture isnt what it used to be, progress stifled, rockism, and so forth. it's not that big. I would have gone with Diesel Pioneer if it wasnt for personal circumstances, I just made it clear afterwards that I wasn't hugely upset about missing out on seeing them for the reasons I stated above.

Infact, I just bought tickets to go see Does it Offend You, Yeah? (http://www.myspace.com/doesitoffendyou) and you could easily lump them in with all the criticism I made of Gay Against You.

Hypocrisy? hm, no... I like their music, but that doesnt mean I'm inspired by their unoriginal, overly trendy aesthetic. Variety is the spice of life! I'd like to see the self proclaimed avant crowd be a little more varied aesthetically and musically. Like a super-trad Cliff Richard cover!

[(Anonymous)]

sorry but does it offend you yea are exactly the type of band you are criticising