Big thanks for this one!!

emo dad blackout

Seriously. As in, seriously that’s their cover? And seriously that’s their album title? Jeesh. I’ve got some old polaroids i could dig up for a cover, and hundreds of titles. How’s about The Murderpony? Or The Lightningtricycle? Or The Drowningbouncyball? Or The Chokingturtleneck?

In other words, pass. Even though it’s free, still, PASS.

that is definitely in the running for worst presentation ever.

Destroyer (Dan Bejar):

I know Momus through different periods. I was a big fan of the Tender Pervert record, if you can believe that – which wasn’t an encouraging sign in a suburban teen from the Pacific Northwest. My biggest fear at the halfway mark of making Kaputt, knee-deep in it but still very little making sense, was that I was going down some path on which I did not belong, on which I was truly clueless and Momus’s engagement with disco music was the first thing that sprang to mind. A wave of nausea rode through me.

I will always listen to what Momus does, out of curiosity, but it is rare that I will defend it. He has written some amazing songs – ‘The Gatecrasher’ is probably the first song of his I ever heard, so good. His fucked-up courtesan pirate vibe doesn’t really speak to me, and when he was hoodwinked completely by the electroclash movement I thought that was a good example of someone being too old to understand something. But at the end of it all he’s probably one of the greatest writers to try his hand at songwriting. It’s too bad those things are so incompatible.