Moloko - Catalogue Greatest Hits Album

With the critically acclaimed release of their 1995 debut album 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' Moloko became worthy newcomers to Sheffield's long tradition of bands which take pop back to the drawing board. It is a treasure trove of uncategorisable, oddball electronic pop. To Moloko's annoyance, it was swiftly bracketed with the trip hop scene, but the Eartha Kitt-meets-Dr Dre funk strut of 'Fun For Me' made it clear that Moloko were following nobody's rules but their own.

Their 1998 album 'I Am Not A Doctor' was stranger still. The fold out sleeve featured an armour-suited Róisín milking a cow in the Alps whilst a hooded Mark runs to the edge of the picture. Why? Why not? "We had to get the cow from the other side of Switzerland and then put it in a ski-lift," explained Róisín. "To keep the cow from bolting, the farmer was touching it up."

The album ventured into fresh drum'n'bass pastures, notably on first single 'The Flipside' but met, in Róisín's words, with "almost total damnation" from critics, despite becoming a firm favourite amongst fans. Moloko had become the Marmite of pop, either you got their surreal sense of humour and unbridled sonic adventure, in which case you thought they were maverick geniuses, or you didn't and you steered clear.
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