- Synth-pop
- Alternative
pop
- Art pop
- Singer-songwriter
- Electronic pop
- House pop
- Alternative
dance
Comment: Nick
Currie aka Momus had released six long players in the while of
1987-1993 for Creation Records and some decades later decided to
upload them at Ubuweb for free download. I can remember for listening
to a Creation Records compilation of two discs and I could not find
out any tracks from the three most important artists from the roster
– My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Momus. At least the first two
ones have proven to be historically the most influential (the impact
and reverence to them), their albums are not being articles in
second hand shops like the albums of a poor man's Beatles as it
strikingly happened after the mass hysteria had been calmed down in
1997. Nick Currie was way too sophisticated and ironic and
contemplative to be somehow a mainstream pop icon. Especially if his
music could be compared with Pet Shop Boys as if reflecting it
through a twisted mirror and on other hand because Momus' sound was
more profound, catchy and providing more credibility. In a word, the
ideal appearance of PSB. Furthermore, Nick Currie can be considered
one of the most honest and prophetic artists at all.
Voyager was the
penultimate within the discography by offering glimpses into
different topics like virtual reality and digital revolution,
mirthless life situations and expectations and impending apocalypse.
Implications of diving into simulacra, and alienation and silly
escape on drugs and frantic behaviour are still relevant and will be
more desperate in the future. Great (pop) work.
