Jesse Lent- vocals, guitar. James Broughel- bass, backing vocals. Colin Peer - drums, backing vocals.
Influences
The voices in my head.
Sounds Like
The new album "Money Makes You Boring" featuring Erik Paparazzi of Catpower, Randy Frey of the Nightrats and Orion Simprini of The Orion Experience is out on Lovesick Records and available for download exclusively right here on myspace.
Luxury
The Same
Daydream
All videos shot by Jen Brown
In fusion cooking as it is in rock & roll, the flavors are not limited to regional specificity, but a blend of from all over place and time. Modern rock comes from a similar stock, often not the sum of it’s parts, but it’s secret recipe relies more on it’s execution. Some of this nouveau cuisine can feel gimmicky; a plate of contrivance. This is not the case for The Monte Vista.
We are basically dealing with a dish of ringing guitar rock powerful enough to fill a stadium, but mercifully lacking the hokum and schmaltz usually associated with arena rock. The songs and the voice delivering them possess a distinctive, anthemic punch while maintaining a nuanced earnestness; a sincerity and pertinence absent from most rock singers and rock songs of any era.
You can expect a variety of bright hooks emerging, as if through some sort of black magic, from a collective sun-kissed past we’ve never experienced. Not like something someone did years ago, but something someone should have done years ago. These instantly classic melodies evoke recollections of a vintage year yet to happen. Remember what it was like tomorrow? Remember how it never was?
The Monte Vista earns the uncommon distinction of a band whose recent release could place in the classic rock decathalon, nestled somewhere between The White Stripes and Big Star, Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones.
The arrangements are clean and bright, boasting a refreshing simplicity like a glimpse of the California coastline through Brit-Rock binoculars. Picture how 60’s Garage Rock would have weathered had it bypassed the 70’s punk movement altogether and shot straight through the heart of 90’s era Seattle. Then add a frontman whose seen the whole trip, although not chronologically, but in a more spiritual sense. It’s guacamole and chocolate, tequila and champagne.
While you’re here, you’ve got to try The Monte Vista.
-Theodore Hume
Hope everything is going good with you! We are really excited about the NEW SONGS we posted. "Top My Cup" and "Born Ready" are some of our best songs yet and we really wanna know what you think :) Check em out and let us know!! Keep in touch ~the Mea Culpa
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Thanks for the add! Lots of stuff in store for 2008 so come and take a look! And if you're in Austin for SxSW, please come by the Beauty Bar on March 13th for the Bay Area Takeover!
I dig your tunes. They're loose and spacy like Pink Floyd, but they still have a very american almost grunge-blues feel and delivery. Psychedelic but not pretentiously so.
yesterday i was driving down pch and "i am, i said" came on the radio- all i could think about was how badly that tune needs some slide! miss you, xoxoann
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