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]

"How on earth you can mix up handsewn plush animal/islamic prayer rug/beach towel outfits and home produced music with Casetteplaya high fashion and trust funded "too Shoreditch" shenanigans?"



It's a complete mystery to me too, Emma. You're all unique snowflakes standing proudly apart from each other in your artistic endeavors, as opposed to a big collective mass of trendy, neon slush thats melting all over myspace as we speak.

"B...BUT THE IRONIC ISLAMIC PRAYER MATS!"

The fact your main retort is a list of gimmicks says it all really. Maybe you didnt make that pillowcase outfit, but you seem really keen on insisting you're making the Emperor's new clothes.

And keep reaching for the personal attacks Emma, you don't know shit about my life or my circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

I like how your main argument is an MS PAINT montage you so painstakingly knocked up yourself. you might as well have retorted with <3333s BFFs LOLZ NEON

never mind

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

If you honestly won't admit to the similarities I've pointed out -- this aesthetic that's being propagated again and again by so many other bands -- I'm wasting my time.

[(Anonymous)]

why so bitter?

yes...

[(Anonymous)]

big pile of rubbish...booo....hisss...geroff the stage