Kooky (Do You Like My Tight Sweater ? - Moloko)

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Product:	Do You Like My Tight Sweater ? - Moloko
Date:	21/04/09 (21 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some very good, imaginative tracks . Can be picked up very cheaply (try MVC) .

Disadvantages: It's only 'good' where it could be 'superb'

As good as this album is, I'm not going to descend to the dull and predictable level of saying 'now that they're famous they've sold out to popularity'. This is simply not true of Moloko. I would say, however, that whether or not you like Moloko's recent material, this album is worth listening to anyway for its' originality, imaginative approach, and sense of fun.
Moloko's debut album is unashamedly off the wall and frequently nonsensical, without being pretentious. Even better, the bizarre lyrics compliment the funky trip-hop beats and a few cracking tracks are to be found. The first track and only single (which charted abysmally), 'Fun For Me' embodies all of what is good about this album - it is humorous and stylish, a trend continued elsewhere in 'Party Weirdo', 'Butterfly 747' and 'Where Is The What If The What Is In Why?'.

The quality of these tracks is not sustained entirely throughout the album, which is a real shame. Elsewhere the eccentrity of Moloko wears a little thin and all that remains is a slightly unfunny and irritating lyric coupled to a sub-groovy beat (particularly towards the end of the album). Nonetheless, the album as a whole is still worth buying for the good tracks. I got my copy for £5.99 which was an absolute bargain. At this price no-one can afford to be without it.
The perplexing weirdness of this album is both what makes so enjoyable and unique, and yet also what made it so unpopular in the sanitised, ultra-marketed world that is modern pop music. Listening to it now is a breath of fresh air against a background of the uninspired works of A1, Westlife, Britney Spears, The ex-Spice Girls and so on.

Tracks:
Fun For Me
Tight Sweater
Day For Night
I Can't Help Myself
Circus
Lotus Eaters
On My Horsey
Dominoid
Party Weirdo
Tubeliar
Ho Humm
Butterfly 747
Dirty Monkey
Killa Bunnies
Boo
Where Is The What If The What Is In Why?
Who Shot The Go Go Dancer?
Pointless Information That I Couldn't Fit Into The Review:
The title comes from a chat up line spoken by the male half of Moloko (Brydon) to the other (Murphy) when they first met.

Summary: Kooky