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

Joemus

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds great Nick..like playing badminton with cucumbers..go for it!!

maf

[(Anonymous)]

naf

[(Anonymous)]

you're quick

[kaipfeiffer.livejournal.com]

heavy balladeering EMOmus? oh yes!
but i'd much rather hear you backed up by a small orchestra/chamber ensemble like scott walker on his last albums!

[(Anonymous)]

You're really too old for this sort of nonsense, it never works for you give it up. Fine if you could work with people who are good at the genre but they probably wouldn't touch you with a glow stick even if they had heard of you. Stick to what your good at, the Cliff cover is good just need a bit better production. You should aim up not down for quality in production.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

TOO OLD? I'm only 28, you rude pig! Or is it 82? I never can remember.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

But Scott Walker was backed up by slices of raw meat and sledgehammers on his last albums!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

lololol why did he ruin a perfectly good pillowcase to make a crappy outfit?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Hisae's reply: "No, he's very cute like a little fairy!"

My reply: "His girlfriend probably made it for him. But you have to see Gay Against You live to understand."

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[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

Well, neither answers the question, but I do feel like I've fallen into 2003 so I guess you've accomplished something.

[kaipfeiffer.livejournal.com]

yes, but that raw meat was bundled by a string section, the sledgehammers bumping through reeds ...

[kaipfeiffer.livejournal.com]

i just think joe howe's 8 bitsyness might be at odds with your mega-trad concept, and not in a good way.
(if the deal is done, then all i've said here means: proof me wrong, joemus!)

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

I'm not cool enough to go to a Gay Against You gig.

[(Anonymous)]

Who cares about being a hypocrite? Maybe you should stop listening to people on the interweb and do what you want.

Who cares that some people don't like it. Who cares that in an alternative world this is Momus' Tin Machine project!!!!

Just doing something new is enough!

:-)

[crowjake.livejournal.com]

I love gay against you and you aaaak, can't fooking waaiitt... only i can't hear your words very well on his track, if it sounds like that i like that i hope you have a lyric book

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Who cares about being a hypocrite?

It seems to have been forgotten that my article against hypocrisy was actually against "hypocrisy" (http://imomus.livejournal.com/362894.html). In other words it wasn't against hypocrites, but against people who are against them!

The confusion probably arises from yesterday's NYT spoof piece, where I declared that I'd just spoken out against hypocrisy, rather than against "hypocrisy".

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised you haven't mentioned the charming videos you made for these songs. they're great! i want to know what those foggy bird things are flying around the misty cheese grater thing.

[(Anonymous)]

really REALLY looking forward to this! germlins album "youth pixxel" is mindblowing.

[diesel-pioneer.livejournal.com]

You elected not to go on the grounds of a Youtube video I sent, if I remember correctly.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jordan! I have a huge stock library of stuff I've filmed over the years, and for these videos I just put appropriate images together from my collection.

The foggy bird things are some kind of artwork I saw in Japan, maybe in the Panasonic Museum or something. It was a really amazing little installation in which butterflies were projected onto smoke rising from a dry ice machine.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

By the way, any progress with the "Ashes to Ashes" vid?

[alphacomp.livejournal.com]

Will you ever make your own beats again? The self-produced momus had it's momunts.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I very seldom made my own beats, even in the old days. For instance, a lot of mid-90s Momus beat patterns came from a Sly and Robbie drum samples CD!

That makes Joe the new Sly and Robbie! Bambaclat!

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

You remember incorrectly.

I remember pulling out of going with you to that Gay Against You gig on the night because I was feeling low, and I remember giving you the specifics, which I'm not discussing here.

I did make a comment afterwards that I wasn't too upset about missing the gig because I didnt think it would have been my thing, which is what I think you're referring to.

I honestly have nothing against Shoreditchy Art performance-esque too-cool-for-school shenanigans, just make sure you're doing something interesting and different with it. I just personally find Gay Against You aesthetically boring with their cookie-cutter klaxons nu-ravey style. Like electricwitch said: so 2003, shitty pillowcase outfit, indier than thou, etc.

I really would rather go into town with you to see this (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/reviews/preview-oha-japan-unicorn-theatre-london-794375.html). Thats when or if you have the time of course.

[alphacomp.livejournal.com]

Fair enough!

This sounds like it's gonna be a thoroughly cool combo, anyway.