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Released: Nov 21, 2008

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Genre: Ambient / Psychedelic / Trip Hop
Location London, London and South East, Un
Profile Views: 28813
Last Login: 4/10/2012
Member Since 11/28/2006
Website www.mondaymorningsun.com
Record Label Trojan Horse Recordings
Type of Label Major
Bio
..!!! Start Code To Apply Top Banner !!!!.. ...... ...... .. Custom top banner code by Eileen.. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... ..!!! End Code To Apply Top Banner !!!.. Monday Morning Sun was formed in 2006 by two members of the Oxford hardcore experimentalists Xmas Lights. Taking their diverse influences the duo make music which meshes shades of light, emotion and drawn-out tension. .. .. MMS was born from an admiration of psychedelic, ambient, dub, trip hop and mind-numbing guitar driven music, with lyrics pondering personal yet universal themes. .. .. Purchase a copy of "The Usual Mile CD".. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Tracklisting:.. 1. Bad Bones.. 2. Blind Leading The Blind.. 3. Never Put A Foot Wrong.. 4. Smoke And Mirrors.. 5. Questions...... T-Shirts are available now .... .. .. .. .. ......Size.......... ..Small ..Medium ..Large .. .... .. .. .. .. .... .. "And so we embark on another epic journey into electronic unpleasantness with Xmas Lights lynchpin Umair, a man who either has an awful lot of spare time on his hands or else has an awful lot of bile to unload. This latest opus weighs in at a full hour and could easily have been stripped of a couple of its more ponderous tracks, Gregorian industrial dirges wherein any hope for mankind’s salvation is hoovered up by some vile robotic battle tank, but at its best this is pretty awesome stuff, lead track ‘Bad Bones’ in particular, with its galley slave beats and eviscerating synthetics that, over ten minutes, billow up into a cavernous cacophony that’s almost operatic in its reach and grandeur, a disembodied robot voice your only friend for the trip. Umair is a master of unrelenting music, doubtless gleaned from his love of Swans, a band who took the idea of desolation to a whole new level. He’s closest to their grim magnificence on ‘The Quest’, the musical equivalent of something nasty stalking darkened corridors. He might be in need of some serious editing at times, but really, give this man a full orchestra and let him loose composing the incidental music for the next series of Dr Who." - Nightshift Magazine .... "From the remnants of Xmas Lights come Monday Morning Sun, an Oxford/London duo with their debut EP. Bad Bones kicks things off with frantic dramatised emergency calls, before dropping some sweeping noises and low bass sounds and slinking into a repetitive groove. Some mysterious electronic vocals kick in for a while, but the relaxed yet unrelenting groove presses on regardless. Around eight minutes you think it’s going to end, as white noise envelopes proceedings, but eventually the beat kicks back in. And on it goes, for just over eleven minutes, although it doesn’t seem overly long. Blind Leading The Blind is springy and initially sounds like a gothic choir chanting over an electronically treated didgeridoo. Doesn’t sound like it should be great, but it works well. Then some doom laden vocals arrive and things plod along somewhat, the music atmospheric and industrial. Never Put A Foot Wrong is a very cyclical sound piece of music, it sounds like it might break of into a jig or reel or even some crazy flamenco. Eventually some very Ian Curtis style sombre vocals arrive, not altering the music one jot. It’s very repetitive music, but wonderfully easy to get lost in their dark world. Smoke And Mirrors starts out suitably hazy and this is the first tune that is rather lacking in dynamics, and at five minutes plus it takes some going. Questions is doomy again, and stomps through the quagmire stalking its prey. The tune sounds like its wearing heavy boots, and squelches electronically. The lyrics are odd intoned stuff about why questioning why and letting sleeping dogs lie. This EP is weird and wonderful and very dark, but ultimately rewarding." - Russells Reviews.... "Monday Morning Sun’s bleak, neo-gothic soundboxes are enough to make you think the Middle East is being ripped to pieces and there’s a recession. Oh, wait. All five grandiose tracks bleed into one landscape, any number of different shades of grey. While closer ‘Questions’ brings the gig to a snappier close, the set lacks the sympathetic respite of, say, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It’s churlish to slate a band for being depressing and the two are, undeniably, the architects of a reference layered, moody atmospheric suite." - Nightshift Magazine .... .. .. border="0" alt="MySpace"/>......
Members
Umair (Guitar, Programming, Singing) .. .. Marco Ruggiero (Bass, Singing, Shouting)
Influences
A wide spectrum of psychadelic and hypnotic music.
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