Momus' cheesy instrumentation somehow compliments the music perfectly, and the result is just the kind of clever enhanced-folk Momus was aiming for. Musically, as well as lyrically, the song has roots in folk music it's part western, part sea shanty. The song presents the tale of Finnegan, an HTML wiz who's forced into obscurity by lack of pay, set against a backdrop of cheap Casio keyboards and drum machines. "Finnegan the Folk Hero" is the greatest success on the album- a witty, entertaining update of a classic theme. And while, at times, Momus constructs a bitingly clever post-modern take on folk music, Folktronic has an unfortunate tendency to choke on its own concept, rendering the album a bit hard to swallow. With his latest album, Momus seems to have brewed together all the elements of his musical history- including his oft-discussed member- into the crazy, glitchy electro-folk record that he has christened Folktronic. Over the course of his career, he's gone from guitar-based folk music to unadulterated synth-pop to "analog baroque." And through all this, he's still found time to have a plaster cast of his penis made for display at a New York gallery, and write top-selling songs for Japan's favorite kinky little girl, Kahimi Karie. But Momus (aka Nick Currie) has never been a follower.
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