With their latest effort, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky..., Japan's Mono have evolved into one of the most passionately aggressive rock bands of the last decade, executing their soaring crescendos, titanic sheets of distortion, and dark melodies with the delicacy and precision of a folded paper crane. Mono worked with Steve Albini on Walking Cloud..., and together they managed to capture the band's hopeful immediacy without sacrificing visceral impact. More lush and orchestral than previous efforts, the a...   [ read more ]

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You Are There is what MONO fans - and anyone who loves heavy, aggressive instrumental music - have been waiting for: a recording that captures the near-transcendent power of the Japanese quartet's live show. Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini, You Are There extends the cinematic drama of previous effort Walking Cloud..., while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More And You Die. With their latest, MONO proves that youthful, inspired agression can complement, rather than overwhel...   [ read more ]

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On Mono | Stereo, Fred Bigot's early "Panasonic meets rockabilly" sides are compiled and sequenced such that you can't help but mistake it for a twenty-first century version of KLF's "Chill Out" - except the country and Elvis references have been replaced by things like the sounds of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and C-beams that glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. You know, shit you'd read about in a Samuel Delany book or something. Culled from two 12-inches of murky, minimalist...   [ read more ]

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