MONO, For My Parents
Featured Album
Oceanic and echo-drenched songs at a stately pace
Experimental noise rock has long been a prime commodity on the Japanese music scene, its roots going back to Keiji Haino, Boredoms, Ground Zero, Boris and more. And while the four members of MONO certainly draw part of their sound from that well, what really slakes their thirst is a Mogwai-indebted sense of sweeping melody and slow-motion dynamics. For My Parents is their first album out from under the wing of Steve Albini since 2002′s self-recorded One Step More and You Die, but in recruiting producer Henry Hirsch (known for his work with Lenny Kravitz in the ’90s) and taking over the cathedral space at Hirsch’s Waterfront Studios, the scope is more oceanic and echo-drenched, and the pace is stately to say the least; the shortest cut here is “Dream Odyssey,” which clocks in at a blistering eight minutes and change. At times the band calls up the neo-classical bluster of the Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed – especially on the string-soaked treacle of “Nostalgia” – but with just about everything from the ’60s being open season these days, it’s a nerdy and decidedly un-psychedelic twist that encapsulates the single-minded Shibuya take on post-rock: no matter the artistic risks, you can’t own it if you don’t fully commit.
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forozcoon December 3, 2012 at 3:10 pm said: Wow, I can give up in peace this near end of world: Having found in emusic new records from Mono and Godspeed You! Black Emperor is not always happen. After listening these high form of music art I will be in mood for anything that should come ;).
