Disco de Moloko: “Do You Like My Tight Sweater?”

Find out my music taste by my favorite albums........enter now:

Marvin Gaye-Whats going on. Tom Waits-Nighthawks at the diner. Keith Jarret-Koln concert. Moloko-Do you like my tight sweater?.......End transmission.

Could you connect these? Neither could I, at first. But as it happenned almost ten years ago, these albums are still on my hi-fi every now and then....And Moloko album is by far an exception in this company....

Dance music that you could not dance.....fairy vocal of Mrs. Roisin...eccletic tune sculpturing...."do not eat this product" warning at the cover....

and verses "she slips, she slides, she don't know why she hide, dizzy little miss with a twinkle in her eye........"

I found that girl. I'm getting married.

Thank you.

Roison Murphy's voice is just amazing. And so unique. The sounds they create are quite funky and different.

In my opinion, the best songs have to be:

* Fun For Me (probably the best song on the CD)

* Party Wierdo

* Killa Bunnies

* Locus Eaters

* Butterfly 747

This first outing certainly built the character of this amazingly unique band. A dizzy, daliance with all the funky, trippy, electro wizardry you could imagine coupled with quirky, witty and wry lyrics which give a poetic and suprisingly sharp insight into modern life. The unique style of the band was formed here, a kind of high octane, ellegent, nostalgic, cutting edge journey with a spicing of eccentric "Englishness".

This album is definitive and delightful stuff and Murphy's voice is a flexible dream! Essential listening.

A fantastic debut album from the Shefield duo. They say it's Grim Up North, but judging by this release it's definitely 'something' up North, but Grim? No way! 'Do you like my Tight Sweater?', written and produced by Moloko themselves, is full of energy, surprises and interesting sounds. Some of the tracks take a few listens to get into but the majority are instant hits. Roisin Murphy's vocals are brilliant & challenging throughout, she also looks great in a Nurses uniform but that's another story. The rhythms are wide-ranging: from Trip Hop and Elecronica to Drum & Bass and just plain weird. Even the short interludes between the main songs are great. The cool music is supported by even cooler, bizarre, dada-esque lyrics. Altogether a splendid CD from the 90's. The tracks I love the most are 'Fun for Me', 'Day for Night', 'Lotus Eaters', 'Butterfly 747', 'Killer Bunnies' and the all time classic 'Where is the What if the What is in Why?'

Moloko have come a long way since this debut LP, with massive singles like 'Sing it Back' and 'The Time is Now' which have been remixed to death and are always guaranteed air play. Although their subsequent albums aren't as adventurous as this one, they're also worth getting. But this release is still my favourite, possibly because it was the first CD of theirs that I bought. Let's hope they never stop releasing their own brand of uncompromising freaky dance material.

When you think of Moloko your mind may immediately jump to memories of tracks like Sing It Back and The Time Is Now. Both house/dance music of sorts, and both mainstream enough to have been very successful.

Unfortunately, what you thought was "Sing It Back" (the tune that got so high into the charts and was played all Summer) was very likely a mix by Boris Dlugosch (The "Musical Mix"), and "The Time Is Now" is an isolated case of disco house amongst a 3 album track record of never being anything like it.

So, what should you think of when you think of Moloko(especially this album)? mainly a mix of downbeat/bigbeat, light drum and bass and experimental sounds.

Highlights of the album are immediately the excellent Fun For Me and Day For Night. Unfortunately after you have locked onto these two tunes you will find some of the other greats on this album take multiple listens to get into.

Lotus Eaters is certainly a grower, Butterfly 747 (which uses a drum and bass beat pattern) certainly gets better and Dominoid becomes a great tune after a few times.

The "skits" (basically little tracks which add style in between the tunes) are never music and generally are not going to interest you... but they purely pad out the track listing and introduce the next track.

So, if you are looking for that silky disco-house sound Moloko have shown us at times, DON'T - it isn't here! But if you are interested in a lounge-about, jazz inspired, smokey journey - this is your one. Perfect production and masses of musical thought make this album drip with class.

(And if you have liked one of their other albums, you will certainly find this of similar excellence.)