Search - Mu :: Afro Finger & Gel

The New Yoko Ono! (nah, scrub that)

J HADFIELD | Nagoya, Japan | 10/04/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Barking electro from Maurice Fulton and his wife, Mu, a Japanese ex-pat who relocated to (of all places) Sheffield, UK. Where "Why I Left" and "Let's Get Sick" are tailor-made dancefloor killers, "My Name Is Tommi" sketches a sordid tale of infidelity and meddling psychoanalysts, while "Hello Bored Biz Man" suspends shrieking cut-up vocals over a hilariously off-key Latin House backing, as a Japanese hostess rails against her smelly, lecherous client. Fulton is on inspired form - the production is tight, infectious and gloriously skewed - but Mu is the real star of the show. Her deliberately affected English vocals get processed, ground up and spat all over the place, but the source material itself is solid gold - who else could make the couplet "I want to tell you something / Open your ears really big" work as well as it does here?"