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| Management number | 205778759 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $57.15 | Model Number | 205778759 | ||
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Title: Smudger
Artist: Momus
Label: American Patchwork
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708527220061
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2022-04-29
Number of Discs: 1
Smudger, the 2022 album from Momus, has several quite distinct strands of influence: from Lieder to Bowie's Lodger, from Benjamin Britten to British Music Hall comedy. Lieder reached it's zenith with Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise; Momus "smudges" this Romantic tradition by opening with a melancholy electronic pop take on Schubert's setting of the poem Gute Nacht, with lyrics newly and freely translated: "The stranger is arriving, a stranger I will leave..." There's another German journey in Bergreise, a song based on the evocative names of German synthesisers. And the album ends with Hanns Eisler's setting of a Brecht poem, On the Friendliness of the World. Before that, though, there are songs which sound like Joni Mitchell, or revive Herman Melville characters, or sound like Rex Harrison musicals scripted by Marty Feldman. There are constant references to Lodger, David Bowie's most eclectic and eccentric album - Influencer Village, for instance, updates Bowie's DJ to the age of eyeball-hungry social media. As for 19th century British burlesque, there are songs which draw on the music hall routines of comics like Harry Champion and Albert Chevalier, songs which introduce character "turns" like The Coffee Professor. The Benjamin Britten influence can be heard in Peter Grimes, a murky retelling of the opera of the same name. And there's a Bond theme pastiche in Supervillain. In the end, though, this is a classic Momus album, full of songs that remind us of his many "adventures in culture" across four decades: Stop the Body is a post-Covid take on his laidback 1987 epic Closer to You, and Totentanz recalls his "folktronic" period. Pesky Blighters even revisits the minimalist systems music of Vivid (2020). What exactly is Smudger smudging, then? With a joyful, playful smear the album blurs past and present, self and other, tradition and innovation, mockery and respect. On the smudging finger, though, always the distinctive Momus print.
Tracks:
1.1 January
1.2 Stop the Body
1.3 Disappear
1.4 Orchestras
1.5 Bartleby
1.6 Supervillain
1.7 Midnight Sun
1.8 Friends
1.9 Smudge
1.10 Coffee Professor
1.11 Influencer Village
1.12 Totentanz
1.13 Pesky Blighters
1.14 Bergreise
1.15 Peter Grimes
1.16 Night Clinic
1.17 Friendly World
Audio Sample:
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Artist: Momus
Label: American Patchwork
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 708527220061
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2022-04-29
Number of Discs: 1
Smudger, the 2022 album from Momus, has several quite distinct strands of influence: from Lieder to Bowie's Lodger, from Benjamin Britten to British Music Hall comedy. Lieder reached it's zenith with Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise; Momus "smudges" this Romantic tradition by opening with a melancholy electronic pop take on Schubert's setting of the poem Gute Nacht, with lyrics newly and freely translated: "The stranger is arriving, a stranger I will leave..." There's another German journey in Bergreise, a song based on the evocative names of German synthesisers. And the album ends with Hanns Eisler's setting of a Brecht poem, On the Friendliness of the World. Before that, though, there are songs which sound like Joni Mitchell, or revive Herman Melville characters, or sound like Rex Harrison musicals scripted by Marty Feldman. There are constant references to Lodger, David Bowie's most eclectic and eccentric album - Influencer Village, for instance, updates Bowie's DJ to the age of eyeball-hungry social media. As for 19th century British burlesque, there are songs which draw on the music hall routines of comics like Harry Champion and Albert Chevalier, songs which introduce character "turns" like The Coffee Professor. The Benjamin Britten influence can be heard in Peter Grimes, a murky retelling of the opera of the same name. And there's a Bond theme pastiche in Supervillain. In the end, though, this is a classic Momus album, full of songs that remind us of his many "adventures in culture" across four decades: Stop the Body is a post-Covid take on his laidback 1987 epic Closer to You, and Totentanz recalls his "folktronic" period. Pesky Blighters even revisits the minimalist systems music of Vivid (2020). What exactly is Smudger smudging, then? With a joyful, playful smear the album blurs past and present, self and other, tradition and innovation, mockery and respect. On the smudging finger, though, always the distinctive Momus print.
Tracks:
1.1 January
1.2 Stop the Body
1.3 Disappear
1.4 Orchestras
1.5 Bartleby
1.6 Supervillain
1.7 Midnight Sun
1.8 Friends
1.9 Smudge
1.10 Coffee Professor
1.11 Influencer Village
1.12 Totentanz
1.13 Pesky Blighters
1.14 Bergreise
1.15 Peter Grimes
1.16 Night Clinic
1.17 Friendly World
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
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