Momus ‎– Ping Pong

Release date: 12/6/2019. A digital reissue of Momus' album Ping Pong, originally released November 1997."The second Momus album issued in America by Le Grand Magistery, Ping Pong marks the flowering of the so-called "analog baroque" style that would be further developed on The Little Red Songbook (although there had been hints of it even in the early synth-pop days). The themes and obsessions are typical of latter-day Momus -- misanthropic wit, sexual mischief, intellectual esoterica, Japanese culture -- and are scattered around the album in an occasionally cohesive fashion. As usual, Momus' stylistic range is impressive: baroque chamber pop, of course, but also waltzes, disco, delicate ballads, Shibuya-kei pop, mock Russian dances, Serge Gainsbourg/Jacques Brel-style French pop, bossa nova, and extended rambling narratives, to cover the majority of it. Although the album is somewhat uneven, highlights are plentiful: the snarky loathing of "His Majesty the Baby," the angel/devil dichot