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Issyvoo
ReleaseProduct
Issyvoo
Artist
Momus
Label
American Patchwork
Catalogue Number
AMPATCH030
Release Date
December 2, 2022

Many years ago Momus wrote a song called The Homosexual about a man who isn't actually gay but delights in — and profits from — the fact that people think he is. Themes of sexual orientation and gender identity thrust and cluster through this, his latest album, recorded in Berlin and named after the writer Christopher Isherwood… or, rather, the way Isherwood's Berlin landlady mispronounced his name when, with the poet Auden and other sexual exiles, he lived amongst queers and cabaret singers during the dying days of the Weimar Republic, teetering at the eerie brink of Nazism. It would be nice to think that, a century later, we'd moved on. Fascism, alas, still menaces us just as it menaced Mr Issyvoo, limiting our personal choices with nannying safetyism or outright dictatorship. Other themes churn through this playful yet serious record: guilt in the art world, the primitivist fantasies of expressionist painters, Britain's semi-feudal monarchy, the laughter of lawyers, the lonely battles of social media, the prettiness of monkeys and the splishy-splashiness of joy. The music this time is hooky and poppy. If we really are sauntering into a "pocket apocalypse" here's a wonderful way to whistle some of its big issues.

  1. Self-Identity
  2. Pocket Apocalypse
  3. Kirchner
  4. Monkey
  5. DGAF
  6. It's Incredible
  7. The Art Creep is Dead
  8. Lawyers
  9. My Wife Will Soon Forget Me
  10. In My Heart
  11. Bertie The Heterosexual
  12. Queerness
  13. Details
  14. Safetyism
  15. Issyvoo

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 01 Self-Identity 3:29 Buy

    01 Self-Identity

  2. 2 02 Pocket Apocalypse 4:17 Buy

    02 Pocket Apocalypse

  3. 3 03 Kirchner 4:12 Buy

    03 Kirchner

  4. 4 04 Monkey 4:33 Buy

    04 Monkey

  5. 5 05 DGAF 3:09 Buy

    05 DGAF

  6. 6 06 It's Incredible 4:26 Buy

    06 It's Incredible

  7. 7 07 The Art Creep Is Dead 3:50 Buy

    07 The Art Creep Is Dead

  8. 8 08 Lawyers 2:38 Buy

    08 Lawyers

  9. 9 09 My Wife Will Soon Forget Me 4:35 Buy

    09 My Wife Will Soon Forget Me

  10. 10 10 In My Heart 3:00 Buy

    10 In My Heart

  11. 11 11 Bertie The Heterosexual 2:51 Buy

    11 Bertie The Heterosexual

  12. 12 12 Queerness 3:08 Buy

    12 Queerness

  13. 13 13 Details 4:05 Buy

    13 Details

  14. 14 14 Safetyism 3:28 Buy

    14 Safetyism

  15. 15 15 Issyvoo 2:29 Buy

    15 Issyvoo

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