User:DoctorWho42/Bibliotek
| Bibliotek | ||||
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| Released | June 5, 2012 | |||
| Length | 43:08[1] | |||
| Label | American Patchwork (AMPATCH011) | |||
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Bibliotek is a 2012 album by Scottish musician Momus. It was released on June 5, 2012 by independent record label American Patchwork on CD and distributed by Darla Records.
Background
"The appropriate psychogeography is easily conjured by a YouTube video that purloins material from "the haunted archive". Archival representations of countryside - complete with media blemishes, scratches and blurs, digitisation flaws, decay artefacts - are much more evocative than real countryside. There's a haunted forest of the mind, and it's really the haunted archive itself, disguised as a forest."
—Momus.[2]
Žižek's Jokes: (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?) described Bibliotek as "cast in a genre he calls 'pastoral horror.'"[3] Momus recorded the album in spring while writing a script for a horror film set in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.[4] Bibliotek samples the films The Blood on Satan's Claw, The Wicker Man, and Woman in the Dunes.[2][5]
Songs from Bibliotek as well as from other 2000s albums Bambi, Glyptothek, and Turpsycore were recollected in the Cherry Red Records anthology Public Intellectual.[6]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| PopMatters |   [7] |
Tank's Shumon Basar described it as "haunted by the necromancy of "pastoral horror" and his dread of the countryside."[2] The Eclectic Collective said "[Bibliotek's] suggestions range from soft horror movies to unhealthy b-movies atmospheres, with morbid pastoral landscapes."[4] PopMatters's Brice Ezell reviewed the album favorably stating "Bibliotek, his twenty-somethingth release, is as obtuse as anything he’s put out before."[7] Reviewing the Cherry Red Records anthology Public Intellectual, Ezell described the music as "forlorn lyrics and minor-key melancholy [...] are compelling even in Momus’ low-key style."[8] PlayGround's Cristian Rodríguez called it "eerily beautiful."[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Erase" | 2:22 |
| 2. | "Lycidas" | 2:33 |
| 3. | "Dunes" | 3:08 |
| 4. | "Farther" | 4:40 |
| 5. | "Core" | 2:47 |
| 6. | "Southbound" | 3:42 |
| 7. | "Huge" | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Bibliotek" | 3:06 |
| 9. | "International" | 3:29 |
| 10. | "Cheekbone" | 2:46 |
| 11. | "Erostratus" | 2:12 |
| 12. | "Jackdaw" | 3:45 |
| 13. | "Shunned" | 4:19 |
| 14. | "Isaak" | 1:19 |
References
- ^ "Bibliotek - Momus". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ a b c Basar, Shumon (31 May 2012). "Momus talks". Tank (magazine). Tank Publications Ltd. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ Mortensen, Audun (2014). "About the Contributors". In Mortensen, Audun (ed.). Žižek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?). MIT Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-262-02671-0.
- ^ a b The Eclectic Collective staff (12 June 2012). "Momus / Bibliotek". The Eclectic Collective. eclecticollective.com. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ a b Rodríguez, Cristian (23 October 2012). "Momus: "Se puede escapar de la conciencia de clase pero nunca de la sexualidad"". PlayGround (in Spanish). PlayGround Comunicación S.L. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ Cherry Red Records staff. "Pubic Intellectual: An Anthology 1986-2016 – Cherry Red Records". Cherry Red Records. cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ a b Ezell, Brice (28 October 2012). "Momus: Bibliotek". PopMatters. Sarah Zupko. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ Ezell, Brice (19 August 2016). "Pubic Intellectual - An Anthology, 1986-2016". PopMatters. Sarah Zupko. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
External links
- Official website
- Momus: Bibliotek playlist on YouTube
Category:2012 albums
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