If you’ve ever had the (dis)pleasure of seeing the movie version of Naked Lunch, you might remember that Mugwumps are the half-typewriter/half-beetle creatures that talked with British accents out of their buttholes to Bill Lee while he binged on skag, er, bug dust, and tried to avoid screwing his wife. While not quite as eccentric or visceral in imagery, there’s a certain surrealism to Geoffrey aka Mugwump, perhaps not to unlike a bug you’ve caught that makes you want to nod off and get lost in the sort of film-noirish world that William Burroughs created. Occasionally Mugwump veers into a hackneyed dance world of overused beats and rhythms, but when he’s on, he’s on — and at Red Bull Music Academy, you can get a brief glimpse of the ambient, trippy world Mugwump’s created, one that may make you think : Hmm, maybe I’ll try some heroin. I mean bug dust, hahaha.
Mugwump Cover
Mugwump Cover

