Review: Moloko "Catalogue"

Review: Moloko "Catalogue"

Moloko "Catalogue": Aidin Vaziri | There's a good reason the now-defunct Moloko never released its albums in the United States: Any country that worships at the craggy toenails of Bon Jovi clearly doesn't deserve music this bewildering, beautiful and utterly insane. Singer Roisin Murphy has the kind of smoky, growling voice that can inspire fantasies, especially on sinister symphonic-electro-folk-house songs like "Time Is Now" and "Sing It Back." Her musical partner, Mark Brydon, has obviously never heard of the Beatles or Kraftwerk, and he's better off for it. How else would he have come up with a song like "Pure Pleasure Seeker," the sound of a brass band playing Ping-Pong on the rings of Saturn? The only crime is that whoever put this thing together forgot to include the best tracks this British band ever recorded: "Mother" and "It's Nothing." But you don't mind paying $43.98 for the imports, do you?