Article: Scottish popster Momus goes Analog Baroque; Y2K goblin crawls into Momus' lyrics.

Meet Scotland's neo-genius pop gremlin Momus. Who else could turn the Y2K problem, the millennium computer bug threatening to crash the world's computers, into the inspiration for a new wing of pop music?

"I seem to collide genres or invent a new one for each album," says Momus, who arrives Thursday at the Middle East with Japan's Kahimi Karie and France's Gilles Weinzapslen. His 11th CD, "Little Red Songbook" (Le Grand Magistery), its title borrowed from a Danish sex manual, follows a mode of stylistic collision he calls Analog Baroque. It's music that mines the contrasts between the old (classical) and new (electronic).

"I started writing a lot of ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!