Otto Spooky

Momus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: American Patchwork
• ASIN: B0007Y8AIS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #850,856 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Classic Momus. On par with his best work. 'Otto Spooky' is the 2005 album from Momus, otherwise known as Scotsman Nick Currie -- perhaps the world's most infamous singer of electronic folk songs. American Patchwork.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Techno-Folk Nouvelle Vague Redux, May 6, 2005

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Jason D. Wick "Armchair Apologist and Limosui... (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Otto Spooky (Audio CD)

Momus is always a master of his own musical mash-up (and with much better source material). Bringing in elements of ethnographic music samples and acoustic sounds, he again does an entirely new take on folk and world music, but this time he's on a new experimental bender recalling 60's Joe Meek sonic booms and 70's Krautrock noodling.

Highlights are the French Moroccan "Klaxon" - a Farsi taxi ride through strange domestic rites in Paris; "Your Fat Friend", a jazzy derailed romp that challenges form and keeps you guessing; "Ulysses", a psychedelic bluesy dirge; "Belvedere" - a darkly comic children's song as written by Jacko and Pol Pot; "Bantam Boys" - a medieval hypnotic hymn that is almost unrecognizable that it's even Momus.

While fans might yearn for the ironic flat Analog Baroque of the prior decade, the sounds here are warmer, more acoustic and organic. Besides, with Beck moving into sampling Gameboy noises, it's good that Momus is always ahead of the curve by a few years/decades.