Momus - Ocky Milk Format:CD Soleil Radieux

Soleil Radieux

with those impossible arrangements that recreate amazing stories in our head

Þröstur Sigurðsson: Trombone

In a world dominated by "aggressive normality"

With a French flavour stemming from two years spent living in Paris - amongst the keyboards and hip-hop break beats - Retrofitting marks the emergence of one of Scotland’s freshest new talents

Momus - Ocky Milk Format:CD Soleil RadieuxPicasso, so they say, had to learn to paint like an adult before he could start scrawling like a child. Maybe the same is true for indie veteran Momus, because on his new album "Ocky Milk" he's gone far beyond the literary singer songwriter fare of his 90s records (think Tom Lehrer with a laptop). The new record is strange, twilit stuff. Pop songs get fed through Google translation engines then crooned underwater, absurd vaudeville numbers about death