Moloko : Familiar Feeling
When you ask someone what music that like and they answer ‘Oh, a bit of everything, really’, they inevitably own six CDs, and the ones that aren’t by Moby are by [a][/a]. Now, we could dismiss ‘Familiar Feeling’ as music for dullards...
Moloko : All Back To The Mine
In 1982, Sheffield's The Human League released the first ever remix album, a new version of their classic LP 'Dare'. Credited to The League Unlimited Orchestra (a homage to Barry White's backing band, the Love Unlimited Orchestra), it was titled...
Pure Pleasure Seeker
Moloko Pure Pleasure Seeker (Echo) Confession time. This hack IS mildly autistic. Seriously. He suffers from a chronic inability to distinguish between vaguely similar names and faces. For real! And it's a properly recognised...
Manchester University Hop & Grape
Oblique yet quaint, glamorous yet faintly threatening... but, hey, we did not come to admire the lighting system. Tonight - magnetised by the irresistible lure of The Singles (last year's contagious 'Sing It Back' and recent rump-shaker 'The...
Things To Make And Do
One thing stands in the way of this brilliant, awesomely original album being a perfect 10. And that is that it is intensely, overwhelmingly, brain-blowingly irritating. Absolutely marvellous as a concept, the devil's work as an aural actuality....
Moloko : Sing it back
Guaranteed to be roosting high in the charts by the time you read this, 'Sing It Back' is not merely Moloko 's most warmly populist creation yet but the disco anthem of 1999. Originally released in March for one week, then hastily...
Moloko : Sing it back
Roisin Murphy , it must be said, has a remarkable voice, a chalky, skewed howl which can twist into a purr, a cry or a sexy growl. On 'Sing It Back' , she's cast as Eartha Kitt , all unquenchable lust, sly, coquettish snarls, a luxuriant,...
