Momus - Pillycock '2017

Tracks list

2017 release from the eccentric Scottish singer/songwriter. Momus - indie
veteran, Japan-dwelling Scot, David Bowie impersonator, unreliable tour guide,
novelist - makes a record every year. Each release becomes a sort of barometer
of the cultural and emotional weather around him, filtered through his own
preoccupations. 2017s release is called Pillycock and features a strong
influence from Pasolinis Trilogy of Life films (the Arabian Nights, the
Decameron, the Canterbury Tales), from the rich Elizabethan language of
pamphleteer Thomas Nashe, from Jacobean revenge tragedy, from Fellini,
psychedelia, snippets of guerilla music foregrounded by artists like Wael Shawky
and Kader Attia, early hip-hop, and the skirl and thump of Japans exuberant
summer festivals. What on earth could these brightly-colored strands have in
common, and whats Momus up to when he weaves them together - with deliberate
inauthenticity and anachronism - over modal electronic folk music using an
Arabic scale called Bayati? Perhaps its their common distance from milquetoast
modern Western culture which makes these themes so oddly appealing; invoking the
power of imagination and our constant desire for the new, the dark and the
strange, this art of distances helps us transform and refresh a world which, up
close, gets sick, sweet, repetitious or rotten.

Tracklist:

01 - Italian
02 - Macbeth
03 - Charcoal
04 - Guerrilla
05 - Ghost
06 - Judy
07 - Pillycock
08 - Crusoe
09 - 2009
10 - Eurotrash
11 - Drunkenness
12 - Whites
13 - Canterbury
14 - Tryster
15 - Literature
16 - Scuttle

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