Now for the two sort of weird MoM releases - weird in that they don't fit in the time-line quite.
Instrumentals is collected from a few years, and is 8 tracks of MoM at their more ambient. It's like Vulvaland, but more focused and more their own sound. The pieces are generally long (at least for MoM), and have that sort of hazy distortion over them, which was a big part of the early sound. It's like all of the high frequencies have been sapped away, and the remains thrown in a rock tumbler. I don't know. Good stuff at any rate.
If Instrumentals is a little odd, then Glam is plain bizarre. The story behind this is that the album is a soundtrack MoM were commissioned to do for a Tony Danza film. Apparently things didn't pan out, and Glam wound up getting released through Sonig, and then picked up by Thrill Jockey. I would very much like to see the movie that this is the soundtrack to, and I suspect it wasn't the one with Tony D in it. Another hazed out, fuzzy piece of ambience with the occasional bit of colour sticking through. It doesn't have songs per se, but the atmosphere it creates is quite cool, it might be good for a movie set in the desert, or in some grimy port-town, permanently encased in fog....
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