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After a two-year foray into book-writing and contemporary art, Momus returns to pop with his strongest release in over a decade. This time he's focused on what he calls "the catnip factor". Just what is it that makes us want to play a great song over and over again on YouTube? What is it about some simple chords and rhymes that really gets under our skin and penetrates deep into our memory and emotion?
After avoiding pop, or asking it to do things books and art can do better, Momus suddenly found himself, in the spring of 2010, playing his favourite songs on YouTube, drawing inspiration for new songs from them, recording the songs and making videos for them during marathon "videosong" sessions, then uploading the results straight up to YouTube.
The Hypnoprism album is the "hard copy" of this process of falling back in love with pop music via its greatest visual moments. And although "hypnoprism" is a made-up word, it might as well be a synonym for YouTube itself: that hypnotic prism that makes songs visible.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album has been available on Youtube in its entirety for a while. This is our chance to own it. It really is the best thing Momus has recorded for a long time - probably since Stars Forever. There are some fine songs here: Evil Genius, Datapanik and the rest.. This is sweet, suspect pop - as good as you are going to hear this year.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I've been a Momus fan since hearing the Don't Stop The Night Album twenty or so years ago. All of the things that made me fall in love with Momus albums back then are here again. This album is entertaining, diverse and with wonderful lyrics - a few of which made me laugh. This album is up there with Don't Stop The Night and Hippopotamomus in my list of favourite Momus albums. I love it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Soft, Masterful, Best Momus Record In Years
17 Nov 2011
Format:Audio CD
This soft and playful masterpiece is another testament of Momus' massive body of work. To the 1 star review who passed this record off as "self-important hipster" something-err-other...at age 51, I'd give anything to have reached this pinnacle of song writing. I assure you, Momus is a true intellectual and original. The modern hipster may need to pay him his dues.
This album is wonderfully executed. He reaches dynamic musical heights and the sound design is top tier. "Datapanik" is the most relevant song to the digital age.
The experimental and soft under-production of Momus is nothing but a clever aesthetic he's well crafted over years. Fans of "Ocky Milk" are really going to enjoy this next evolution of sound. There is the same old wit, same old rhyme but weathered in warm, original, colorful, playful, meaningful sounds and melodies. 5 stars and beyond.
This album is wonderfully executed. He reaches dynamic musical heights and the sound design is top tier. "Datapanik" is the most relevant song to the digital age.
The experimental and soft under-production of Momus is nothing but a clever aesthetic he's well crafted over years. Fans of "Ocky Milk" are really going to enjoy this next evolution of sound. There is the same old wit, same old rhyme but weathered in warm, original, colorful, playful, meaningful sounds and melodies. 5 stars and beyond.
Ahh, Momus
16 Mar 2012
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I really like Joemus and predicted this album to be a little less noisy, and at first it is. The songs are typical Momus, intellectually over-the-top and ribaldly humorous in equal parts. As such I can understand the idiot who gave this album one star. However, I strangely feel that a review like that is something Momus would write in a particularly cruel and darkly humorous self-assessment. It is something pseudo intellectual hipsters would flock to, but not necessarily enjoy due to their tastes being based on calculations, rather than response. As such, it's kinda hard to place what a review like that reveals about the person who wrote it and what they actually feel about the music. Seems they got lost in the forrest for the trees. Momus is on full display in this album, and I equally wonder whether it's 100 percent true admission, or more like 60/40. I opt for the latter, it makes his mystique more interesting and his songs become like characters he steps into. He just keeps on truckin with this one, datapanik leading the way. He'll always be a cult figure, but straightfowardly so.
0 of 12 people found the following review helpful
self-important hipster pop
1 Aug 2011
Format:Audio CD
Yup, it carries all the signs. Blocky pastel colors, "ironic" song titles--this is generation Y, pitchfork-baiting fad music in full swing, and 10 years ago it would be a swoopy black bangs emo album. Recommended if you enjoy superficial and substanceless pop music, but would like to listen to it with the facade of "postmodern worldliness".
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