Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Radiolab, synchronized cerebellums, ice pick lobotomies, telecasters, Gabriel Berezin, tape echoes, Wilco, Miles Davis, The Beatles, blind faith, chaos and disorder in lower Manhattan, 2001, Mike Cook, illusions, paper illusions, Neil Young, being born, being dead (oxymoronic), faith, skepticism, Queens of the Stone Age, Eliott Smith, Kevin Plessner, Radiohead, Lily Berezin...
Children of Men, Pink Floyd, School of Language, Field Music, PJ Harvey, Doc Emmit Brown, Bjork, Grant Zubritsky, John Lennon, Ravi Shankar, cognitive dissonance, Tourette's Syndrome, Broken Social Scene, autism, Science Faction, lucid dreaming, dissociation, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, time, quantum mechanics, synesthesia, Nirvana, Amal Bouhabib, seeing with your eyes, not your brain, Sigur Ros, shame, day jobs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Billy Pilgrim, Gabriel Faure, DJ Shadow, Duane Hoover, Aphex Twin, religious thinking, MEMORY...
Sounds Like
Blinking lights and cigarette smoke. Delay pedals and a ghost. Synchronized cerebellums.
In the winter of 2008, Monuments drove north to begin laying down tracks for their debut album. Surrounded by snow, in a studio in Woodstock, many of the songs they recorded had begun as lyrical inquiries: singer Gabriel Berezin, 10 minutes late to work, watched an airplane fly through his office window in the World Trade Centers on Sept 11, 2001.
Monuments' lineup took form over the intervening years; in came drummer Mike Cook, followed by guitarist Kevin Plessner, and bass player Grant Zubritsky. The band co-founded The Periodic Label, a collective of twenty bands, and played shows throughout Brooklyn and the surrounding environs.
Their self-titled debut album, to be released August 2009, includes
tracks "Not My Own" an existential sci-fi exploration, the epic and
waltzing "Silver Star," and "I'm Here Now," a stomping narrative, fever dream. Led by vocals swooping from an imaginary mountain peak, Monuments
layers cascading, chiming guitar textures with throbbing bass, tightly
tethered by metronomic, drum like precision. From a devastated diary
of home recordings, Monuments re-imagines the future of the past into
sonic hope.
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"Nope, not the Motor City band of '60s vintage, not the UK skiffle outfit, nor the Depeche Mode tributeers. This version of Monuments—featuring Gabriel Berezin, Grant Zubritsky, Kevin Plessner, and Mike Cook–is one of Brooklyn's finest, miraculously so in a borough that overflows with artists. And Gabe and 'nem are quite powerful, but its essence trends to subtle manipulations of space, the sort of attenuated twang that made Crazy Horse revered, and extending soulful harmonies far into the cosmos. Their full-length apparently won't surface till New Year, but you can certainly dig their brand of epic quiet now."
-The Village Voice
For press inquiries and booking, contact us at: monumentsmusic(at)gmail(dot)com
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Hey everyone, I hope this finds you all well…
We're excited to announce that the new Meanwhiles record Slow Motion Summer in all it's bleary-eyed, indie-rock glory is now printed, packaged, produced, posted online, and in all ways.. available.
The CD features Alan Weatherhead playing pedal steel guitar and orchestral samples on “Whenever You Need Me,” and Nadine Khouri singing subway-tunnel echoed vocals on “Dreams From the Underground.”
Limited edition, hand painted CDs by Todd Allen, standard CDs in cases, high quality MP3 downloads and free listens available on our myspace page or at Meanwhiles. com through PayPal.
Those of you in NY can pick up a copy this Sunday at Rebar in DUMBO, Brooklyn where Todd and I will be playing an intimate set at 8pm.
Got some good things planned for the near future… videos, tours, collaborations, live MP3s, and new songs begging to be recorded. Check out Meanwhiles. com for details…
Thank you as always. We hope you can take a listen.
“Keep on the sunny side,”
Josh/Meanwhiles
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