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| Released | 5 December 2015 | |||
| Length | 46:51 [1] | |||
| Label | American Patchwork (AMPATCH017) | |||
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Glyptothek is an album by Scottish musician Momus. It was released on 5 December 2015 by independent record label American Patchwork on CD and distributed by Darla Records.
Glyptothek was recorded in Osaka, Japan. [1] [2] Momus began making songs for the album by working with samples from his extensive collection of old Japanese folk music. [3] [4] The cover is designed by Hagen Verleger. [5] His previous album Turpsycore was published in the same year. [2] Songs from Glyptothek and from other 2000s albums Bambi , Bibliotek , and Turpsycore were recollected in the Cherry Red Records anthology Pubic Intellectual. [6]
Song topics include befriending and naming a cockroach "Gregor," famous statues coming to life and taking nude selfies, fingerless chefs, and his. [7]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Frontiers |   [7] |
Yahoo! Music 's Dave DiMartino ranked Glyptothek sixth on his list "Best Albums of 2015." [8] Now Then's Zachary Freeman described the album as "combined samples of Japanese shamisen 45 records with disparate synthesisers and abrasive guitars." [9] Zitty's Thorsten Glotzmann commented on the album's composition stating "flutes, and drumming samples [...] clearly sound like Japan." [2]
Frontiers 's Dominik Rothbard reviewed the album favorably with "Glyptothek is at once hilarious, heartbreaking and a bit scary, but sadly, it's not likely to drag him out of obscurity." [7] Bashooka's Henri Wijaya put it on the list "50 Most Awesome CD Packaging & Cover Designs." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Art Creep" | 2:49 |
| 2. | "Masks of Bebko" | 2:51 |
| 3. | "Moral Mountain" | 2:34 |
| 4. | "Chef Biff" | 2:41 |
| 5. | "The Kappa" | 2:26 |
| 6. | "The Etruscan Shepherd" | 3:13 |
| 7. | "AFK" | 3:06 |
| 8. | "Gregor Samsa" | 2:40 |
| 9. | "Hinkfuss at the Glyptothek" | 3:06 |
| 10. | "The Labourer" | 2:22 |
| 11. | "The Manticore" | 2:35 |
| 12. | "Electric Dionysus" | 3:06 |
| 13. | "Candaulism" | 3:15 |
| 14. | "Nikki Danjo" | 2:37 |
| 15. | "Old Nick" | 3:40 |
| 16. | "Papposilenus" | 3:46 |
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