Oskar Tennis Champion

Born in Scotland, and a veteran of UK indie labels like 4AD, Cherry Red and Creation, the musician, essayist, traveller, scenester and artist known as Momus began releasing his 'analog baroque' electronic chamber pop records in the US in the late 1990s.The themes of the songs on 'Oskar Tennis Champion' are as diverse, ambiguous and playful as ever: here are politically-correct pirates and disabled epic heroes, 20th century Scottish vaudeville turns, Bauhaus design enthusiasts who fall victim to slapstick pratfalls, victims of bukkake reconstrued as controllers of sperm (and therefore the future of man), sentimental Schubert fans and optimistic communists, puppets and pierrots who rap about Henry Darger, blind guides who abandon their wards, sexual sewing machines and pretty Japanese girls who wander in Antarctica with tiny frozen lapdogs poking out of their coats. Business unusual, then, as usual.