Utilizing his deceptively lightweight instrumental backdrops and slyly effete vocals, Mr. Nick Currie serves up a typically brilliant new set of bracing sexual-cultural broadsides. This time around, he takes M.C. Escher's name at face value and presents the fabulist artist as a rapper; reveals the identity of Bob Dylan's Mr. Jones ("He's a pinboy, he also wears suspenders"); contemplates the cosmic ramifications of synthesist Walter Carlos's sex change; drolly offers pointers on how to spot an invert ("Good grooming, a tidy bedroom, never married"); thanks everyone he's ever slept with (though not all by name--"don't worry, we all know who you are"); and, citing John the Baptist and Moses, ponders the cultural significance of a certain entertaining/demeaning recreational practice. All this, and 10 extra tracks so you can create your own Momus karaoke! This guy is a genius.
