Released on Le Grand Magistery Records – HRH-020 – February 2001.
Tracks
- Appalachia
- Smooth Folk Singer
- Mountain Music
- Simple Men
- Finnegan The Folk Hero
- Protestant Art
- U.S. Knitting
- Jarre In Hicksville
- Tape Recorder Man
- Little Apples
- Robocowboys
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Folk Me Amadeus
- Handheld
- The Penis Song
- Heliogabalus
- Going For A Walk With A Line
- The Lady Of Shalott
- Mistaken Memories Of Medieval Manhattan
- Pygmalism
Momus says
In the year 2000, Momus moved from London to New York, held a one-man show in a Chelsea art gallery, lectured, sang and danced around the world, wrote a whole bunch of essays on his website and cut an album of ‘plastic folk’. On ‘Folktronic’, with typical pleasure in perverse juxtaposition, he’s decided to combine analog electronics with folk songs. Hideously pompous baroque keyboard licks of 80s synthpop climb into bed with fakely traditional ballads, jigs and sea shanties; mock prog epics full of tempo and key changes collide with neo-vaudeville numbers on the subject of the penis; eulogies to decadent Roman emperors rub shoulders with passages of Bach played by cartoon fiddle yokels through massive ring modulation. It’s those prolific medieval songwriters Trad. and Anon. finding the missing link between unicorns and Unix.