Momus - Ocky MilkPicasso, so they say, had to learn to paint like an adult before he could start scrawling like a child. Maybe the same is true for indie veteran Momus, because on his new album Ocky Milk he's gone far beyond the literary singer songwriter fare of his 90s records (think Tom Lehrer with a laptop). The new record is strange, twilit stuff. Pop songs get fed through Google translation engines then crooned underwater, absurd vaudeville numbers about death

abandoned on the island of Naxos after helping Theseus kill the Cretan Minotaur by giving him a ball of thread so that he could find his way back through the labyrinth

bit by bit

Danilo Lozano

the only recording from the band from that year

this is a reissue of a 1957 album featuring the great American racing car driver Phil Hill in his own words on the sport

Along with his friends in the school kyudo club

From Hutchins's time managing the House of Cash publishing label in the 1970's

a title inspired by Dalí's painting of the same name

and in One Take

and was to write books on the interpretation of each of them

while stunning events change the face of Amanda and Jack's relationship

'I enjoyed the whole sweep of his conception