Joemus artwork and pre-order

[imomus]

Joemus, the new Momus album, due on November 18th in the US and November 24th in the UK (the releases were to have been simultaneous, but November 24th is a holiday in the US), is now available for pre-order on the Darla site and on Amazon. Here's the artwork, by Stefan Sadler from Famicon (back-story here):



Product Description: "The new Momus album, Joemus, is a collaboration between the veteran electronic vaudevillian and Joe Howe, a young Glasgow breakcore musician known for his work with Gay Against You and Germlin. Asked, back in 2007, to do a cover version for a limited edition box set called Recovery, Momus called on the young Scot's services to make a cover of David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, which turned out "not so much a pop song as a ping pong match between Coco the Clown and Major Tom... a series of satistfying thwack and plock and boiiiiiing noises," according to Momus. The Bowie cover isn't on Joemus, but the Nintendo Glam Rock feel -- and the odd noises -- persist. The pair worked over the internet, then spent several weeks together in Berlin fine-tuning the results. The Joemus album sounds like the hits of 70s Scottish glam rock sensations The Bay City Rollers played on 80s amusement arcade equipment. Joe's frenetic, ADD-addled jams get turned by Momus into folk jigs, but the fast numbers alternate with tenderly morose slowies, covers of Cliff Richard ballads and Ryuichi Sakamoto croons. Then it's back to the beats-and-edits frenzy, and tales of horror, from Dracula (a duet with Groopie Kyoka Kyoka) to Ichabod Crane. The result may be the most satisfying pop album Momus has ever made -- but only if your definition of pop tends to the edgy, jumpy, fresh, and weird."



The font, Joemus, has been specially made by Stijn Segers of Werkmannen. Werkmannen specialize in making fonts from hand-lettered sources (like this cement factory wall). The Joemus font (the story of how it came about is here) will be released on Click Opera and on the Werkmannen website during the week of release.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So I'll have to import it when living in Germany? Not that it'd be any cause of trouble, just wondering if there'll be a release in your chosen country of residence, too.

Congrats in any case!

-r

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Europeans should order the UK version from the Cherry Red website (http://cherryred.co.uk:80/analogbaroque/artists/momus.htm). It'll be available in Germany as an import.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, thanks! Please tell me it'll be a digipak thing again(like your Ocky Milk), because I'd like to have this cover on top of my small CD stack.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yes, digipak in both the UK and US!

The UK release will have a sticker on the front (outside the cellophane wrapping), because Cherry Red don't like the idea of an image with no artist/title info.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! I can't wait to get myself a copy of this one!

[akabe.livejournal.com]

have you heard of Joe Mus (http://www.joemus.com) ? (or is it the artist formerly known as joe mus? )

it still makes me cringe seeing those guys branding and labeling menu fonts and cement factory fonts but , well, the cover does look great.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I hope Joe Mus isn't the litigious type. Anyway, he has the space.

Glad you like the cover, I don't think there's anything morally objectionable about making a font out of found lettering. Is there one of Mr Sato's work (http://imomus.livejournal.com/314837.html) yet? If there isn't (and I'm sure he hasn't made one himself), there should be!

[akabe.livejournal.com]

i don't find it objectionable as such just that at this particular point in time every existing form of vernacular creativity - in many ways i think the true creativity - worth its , well, survival, gets packaged and branded while new forms seem to be reduced to myspace variations.
mr Sato is the short-circuit.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

お疲れ様です。

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

It looks and sounds soopergay, bb. Your remaining fangirls approve, I'm sure.

[dogsolitude-v2.livejournal.com]

Soopergay?

Maybe it's Jomosexual!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

No.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Jomosexual would have been a great title, shit, why didn't we think of that? ("Gay Against Momus" did occur to us.)

[lazy-leoboiko.livejournal.com]

so where's the link for the creative commons–licensed album? :)

don’t tell me you are *seriously* releasing this in oldmedia style and expecting us to download its torrent?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm leaving the slick marketing ideas to Radiohead and Damien Hirst this time. I honestly don't care how you get your mitts on it. That's up to you.

[korovision.livejournal.com]

the layout looks brilliant! i really like how you did the back cover

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for a great image, Stefan! Glad you like the final result. I think your drawing would have looked nice with pretty much any graphics, but I like the synergy with the Joemus font a lot myself.

I happened to see a quite similar effect on a gig poster the other day:

[(Anonymous)]

That cover is a mighty flattering piece of homoeroticism, Momus. Makes you and Joe look the same age, when you're more of a father-and-son team aren't you?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You're imagining me having an incestuous homosexual relationship with my own son? You pervert!

anticipation, expectation and excitement

[(Anonymous)]

Nick

The LP looks stunning and as ever the thought of a new Momus record sends quivers and shivers of excitement throughout this household. It makes me want to get intoxicated on expensive Oregan Pinot Noir and send a donation of another reckless 100 Euros to you.

ever your obedient servant

maf

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

A bit unrelated, but have you seen the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8)?

[(Anonymous)]

i LOVE how gay this cover looks! it looks like you're boffing in the shower! so wonderful!

and the zine lettering; very d-i-y. three cheers, old chap.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that Joe's quite inhibited in real life -- the night before he left Berlin I suggested we shoot some pictures in the same pose as the cover, with our shirts off. "I don't think I'd be comfortable with that," he said. So we kept our shirts on.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Joemus has two daddies.

[harveyjames.livejournal.com]

Shoulda let me do it :O

Seriously though, nice cover

[mcgazz.livejournal.com]

Nice work :)

[craig-pulsar.livejournal.com]

Germlin and Momus together? Excellent! Should save a few bob over buying separate albums...

[beskalin.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

it's so beautiful and cute! wish it was a poster for the wall.

take care now.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Charmed, I'm sure!