Jennifer wrote:
Purchased the new Momus album yesterday. Has it been out a while?
patrons paying for their endeavors, so why shouldn't Momus? Most of the songs never seem to break out of novelty, except for the Shawn Krueger one, which is sentimental and clever as hell. Not exactly the Sistine Chapel, though. That said, it's a nice turn of the tables for an artist to works for the fans. Hell, if I'd $1,000 I woulda done it. And why not raise money like
as opposed to releasing live albums, sub-par rarities-type things? I still think it could have been done in a more meaningful way, though. But then he'd have to know these people like a girlfriend of friend, I guess. Ack! I'm
In the UK and US, for a week. In Germany, for slightly longer. Can't > decide what I think of his premise--that throughout history many artists had this the
queen of dithering on this record.
Trying not to turn this into the Momus mailing list, but it's my album of the year. Too much genius to mention, too little mediocrity to complain about.
Anyway, Belle and Sebastian are namechecked on the album, so that's my obligatory content.
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