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Do You Like My Tight Sweater

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I was first intorduced to Moloko through the iTunes store. I bought and downloaded the album, and when I listened to it I couldn't believe my ears. Moloko is one of the most unique and delightful bands I have ever heard of. Their off-beat rythyms and quirky lyrics compine with trip-hopish and jazzy rythms to create a wonderfly dynamic and oddly seductive style of music that very few artists can achieve. The tracks range from up-beat and bouncy rytyms to slinking and seductive sounds and intriquing lyrics, together creating a completly unique, intriquing, and occasionally humerous work of art.

Find out my music taste by my favorite albums........enter now:
Marvin Gaye-Whats going on. Tom Waits-Nighthawks at the diner. Keith Jarret-Koln concert. Moloko-Do you like my tight sweater?.......End transmission.

Could you connect these? Neither could I, at first. But as it happenned almost ten years ago, these albums are still on my hi-fi every now and then....And Moloko album is by far an exception in this company....

Dance music that you could not dance.....fairy vocal of Mrs. Roisin...eccletic tune sculpturing...."do not eat this product" warning at the cover....

and verses "she slips, she slides, she don't know why she hide, dizzy little miss with a twinkle in her eye........"

I found that girl. I'm getting married.

Thank you.

Welcome to the world of creepshow funk, music filled with buttery veins of bass and gloomy back-murals of fun house soul. You'd never guess (if you didn't already know) that the spooky rhythms of this quirky album were slapped and crafted by a white European couple. In fact, the title -- "Do You Like My Tight Sweater?" -- is supposedly the pick-up line Murphy used when she first met Brydon at a party in Sheffield.

That's the sort of fun you're dealing with here, and the songs are also thrumming with the dark, risky trebles of uncertain affection, too, in keeping with the fact that it was recorded at the start of their romantic and professional unions. Although the songs are infused with the same gleeful experimentation and shadowy flirtations that those kinds of beginnings suggest, there is none of the hesitation and uncertainty you might expect. This might be their debut album, but it sounds like the seasoned work of a couple of people who've already been around the block a few times.

The lyrics are mostly senseless. The rhyme schemes are fluffed and tweaked to hang like dark curtains around a dark, chewy center. The very first track, "Fun For Me," is fun for everyone, an in-your-face inside joke that everyone can get. "Lotus Eaters" features prominently a wickedly creepy industrial backdrop, tickled with strange phantom screams and a repetitive synth-twisted whining voice that sounds like it would be annoying and is anything but. "Party Weirdo" is a spiritually trippy track that sounds exactly like a name like "Party Weirdo" would suggest it sounds. "Ho Humm" makes excellent use of deep undercurrents of sexy (kinda sweaty) soul; and if you listen carefully, those spine-tingling electro-screams are still present.

This album is a great and new kind of funky (okay, well, "new" to those who've never heard them before) that is both vibrant and vicious, fun and frightening, catchy and creepy-crawly. It's not for everyone -- the album thrives on melodies and tones that are as electronic as they are soul-funky -- but I dare say it IS for most. "Do You Like My Tight Sweater?" Well, Moloko, it's hard not to.

Roison Murphy's voice is just amazing. And so unique. The sounds they create are quite funky and different.

In my opinion, the best songs have to be:
* Fun For Me (probably the best song on the CD)
* Party Wierdo
* Killa Bunnies
* Locus Eaters
* Butterfly 747

This is a wonderful cd to add to your collection if you are into any trip-hop or electronica. It's kind of like a twisted blending of Olive & Weird Al Yankovic. All of the lyrics are twisted and bizarre (ie - "I am the doughnut that you hold up and I never sold up in a pie. The hoot boot's so fly I always try to beat the rest to impress. I put my tongue in the trouser press..."), and the beats are quirky and get stuck in your head after one listen. Wonderful music to just chill to.

This first outing certainly built the character of this amazingly unique band. A dizzy, daliance with all the funky, trippy, electro wizardry you could imagine coupled with quirky, witty and wry lyrics which give a poetic and suprisingly sharp insight into modern life. The unique style of the band was formed here, a kind of high octane, ellegent, nostalgic, cutting edge journey with a spicing of eccentric "Englishness".
This album is definitive and delightful stuff and Murphy's voice is a flexible dream! Essential listening.

Funky trippy jazzy electronica. That's about all it takes to sum up Moloko's colorful debut "Do You Like My Tight Sweater?", which never stops with the wild sounds and cool bizarrity. Whether mixing airy organ with drum'n'bass or dipping into acid jazz, there is never a dull moment here.

"I dreamt that I was dreaming, I was wired to a clock,/Tickled by the minute hand tick tock tick tock," intones Roisin Murphy in a weird, robotic voice. Behind her is a swirl of piano and funky dancebeats, occasionally straying off into mellow electronic tones. And that's just one song.

In the songs that follow, Murphy and her bandmate Mark Brydon alternate bizarre electronica with weird little skits (like "Tight Sweater," which is just Murphy asking if we like... well, you get it). Sonic burps, metallic drumming, sampled voices, a mooing noise, sparking rhythms and strange chanting all are splattered over the songs, a sonic Jackson Pollock painting.

The electronic beats sound wild and a bit random, but further exploration shows that they are extremely deliberate: for example, Roisin Murphy gets to channel Beth Gibbons in the funky-jazzy "Dominoid," and the eerie, airy vocals and organ of "Butterfly 747" slowly ooze into a tribal drumbeat.

Murphy sings in a sweet, clear voice, which makes the oddball songs sound even weirder. "I dreamt that the bogeyman went down on Mr Spock/Sugar was a flowing sock it to 'em sock/I dreamt I saw a moo cow jump across the moon/Just a flight of fantasy zoom zoom zoom." But she can turn that voice into a spiky mace in songs like the claustrophobic "Killa Bunnies."

Despite the odd slow moment, Moloko never once slows down. Even the jazzy moments are kept unpredictable. But it's not the sort of thing you can immediately dance to, because the beats are all clouded in the deliciously weird sound effects and musical tweaks. Besides, who would want to dance if you can listen instead?

Moloko's debut was a surprisingly solid, whimsical one. Full of trippy-dancey-funky-jazzy-electro-pop, "Do You Like My Tight Sweater" is one to keep and listen to.

When you think of Moloko your mind may immediately jump to memories of tracks like Sing It Back and The Time Is Now. Both house/dance music of sorts, and both mainstream enough to have been very successful.

Unfortunately, what you thought was "Sing It Back" (the tune that got so high into the charts and was played all Summer) was very likely a mix by Boris Dlugosch (The "Musical Mix"), and "The Time Is Now" is an isolated case of disco house amongst a 3 album track record of never being anything like it.

So, what should you think of when you think of Moloko(especially this album)? mainly a mix of downbeat/bigbeat, light drum and bass and experimental sounds.

Highlights of the album are immediately the excellent Fun For Me and Day For Night. Unfortunately after you have locked onto these two tunes you will find some of the other greats on this album take multiple listens to get into.

Lotus Eaters is certainly a grower, Butterfly 747 (which uses a drum and bass beat pattern) certainly gets better and Dominoid becomes a great tune after a few times.

The "skits" (basically little tracks which add style in between the tunes) are never music and generally are not going to interest you... but they purely pad out the track listing and introduce the next track.

So, if you are looking for that silky disco-house sound Moloko have shown us at times, DON'T - it isn't here! But if you are interested in a lounge-about, jazz inspired, smokey journey - this is your one. Perfect production and masses of musical thought make this album drip with class.

(And if you have liked one of their other albums, you will certainly find this of similar excellence.)

A fantastic debut album from the Shefield duo. They say it's Grim Up North, but judging by this release it's definitely 'something' up North, but Grim? No way! 'Do you like my Tight Sweater?', written and produced by Moloko themselves, is full of energy, surprises and interesting sounds. Some of the tracks take a few listens to get into but the majority are instant hits. Roisin Murphy's vocals are brilliant & challenging throughout, she also looks great in a Nurses uniform but that's another story. The rhythms are wide-ranging: from Trip Hop and Elecronica to Drum & Bass and just plain weird. Even the short interludes between the main songs are great. The cool music is supported by even cooler, bizarre, dada-esque lyrics. Altogether a splendid CD from the 90's. The tracks I love the most are 'Fun for Me', 'Day for Night', 'Lotus Eaters', 'Butterfly 747', 'Killer Bunnies' and the all time classic 'Where is the What if the What is in Why?'

Moloko have come a long way since this debut LP, with massive singles like 'Sing it Back' and 'The Time is Now' which have been remixed to death and are always guaranteed air play. Although their subsequent albums aren't as adventurous as this one, they're also worth getting. But this release is still my favourite, possibly because it was the first CD of theirs that I bought. Let's hope they never stop releasing their own brand of uncompromising freaky dance material.

I have 3 words to say...I LIKE IT. This is a great album with strong songs to boot. Lotus Eaters, Day For Night, Where is the... are all my favorites. I think it is not a strong as Esthero, Lamb, Snooze or even Homogenic (bjork) but I would totally recomend it to a friend.