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Sounds Like
An instrumental group that rely too much on trying to be different and making a racket than causing any sort of pleasure. Their main problem is that they are just far too loud. Can anyone please tell me the point of using a saxophone if nobody can hear it?
Too much unintelligible noise and feedback that just plain hurts. A poor man’s Quack Quack, I’d hate to be their neighbours.....................The excessive volume, nonetheless, is still an aspect which hasn't been improved and often does These Monsters more harm than good! The colourful sax parts are squeezed out almost entirely in fuller sections while everything amplified thunders on (do you think These Monsters' amps go to 11?).
Though they look like they've come in off the street after a three day bender, complete with questionable fashion accessories (headbands for pity's sake!), These Monsters definitely have it in the riffs. Even the saxophonist seems to wish he was playing guitar. A line of stalwart nodders bang the time with their heads to this heaviest of mesmeric grooves. Think somewhere between We Vs Death and Pelican and you're getting close. - BBC.co.uk
iLiKETRAiNS were immediately preceded by THESE MONSTERS' hugely entertaining blast of melodic noisemongering. Two guitars, bass, drums and percussion (no vocals) roar like monsters for three numbers with non-stop noise ululations between them. They were nicely loud, played facing each other as if in ritual combat. It was music that you could follow like an epic. Each instrument was audible, each idea was planned and executed with style and the whole audience had a damn good time. I really can't think why you would not love this stuff. It was my first encounter an I was hugely impressed. - Whisperin & Hollerin
Time has frozen as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of jazz-post-rock resonance both comforting and devestating - The Fly Magazine
one of the most interesting and engaging instrumental acts I’ve heard from the UK in a long fucking time – no word of a lie - Collective-zine
Over and over These Monsters deliver a crashing landscape of deft intensity and unparalleled creativity. As far as debut releases go, few are as stunning or ambitious as These Monsters.
I'm hard pressed to align These Monsters with another UK band, because frankly there aren't any other UK artists I've heard doing anything remotely similar. In that aspect, they join the ranks of 65 Days of Static and Blueneck for outright creativity. - Decoy Music
These Monsters are a band that can hold their heads up high with the likes of Sigur Ros, Mogwai and The Boards of Canada - UK Music Search
Album of the Week – Organ Magazine
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is one of the most promising bands in the instrumental arena. If These Monsters can pull together a debut album with anything close to the vision, idea and musicianship as this EP, they will definitely become the U.K's answer to Explosions in the Sky. - The Silent Ballet
During the middle of the set I take a casual glance around the packed room to notice that not one person is talking, all eyes on the band and all jaws on the floor. - Leedsmusicscene.net
Finally for the band of the moment, These Monsters, I cannot stress how good they were tonight, you must, infact have to see this band live ... Up next, these monsters are simply amazing. The five-piece make instrumental blunderbusses of songs that would give Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai nightmares. The doom-laden riffs and drummer Tommy's relentless assault on his kit are at once brutal and strangely pretty, whilst the rousing saxophone adds a perverse showtune element to proceedings - a vicious, energetic and loud-enough-to-be-pornographic live show. - Sandman Magazine
They look like a bunch of very talented tramps. - Contact Music
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If you'd like either of our records you can order them directly off this page by clicking one of the links below.
EP 1
SIDE A
"intro"
"nice day to start a war"
"still that dust cloud lies"
SIDE B
"night of the storm"
"dust and ivy"
on 12 inch white vinyl
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CD SINGLE
"To swing back and forth with a steady & uninterrupted rhythm"
"Mort Pour Rein"
includes hand printed inlay & sleeve
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The track "Fleets of Black Hovercraft Anchored In Space" is on the new Brainwash Promotions compilation which is out on Children No More Records.
http://www.myspace.com/childrennomorerecords
and
The track "The Naked City" is available on the new On The Bone Records compilation.
http://www.onthebonerecords.com
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CONTACT
BAND - thesemonsters@hotmail.com
BOOKING / RECORD LABEL - brainwashpromotions@hotmail.com
Thanks for the feedback. It does not deter me from still supporting Mayflowerblood or the message he's trying to convey about the humanity of cats. Have a good one! Oh ya and a kick ass weekend
liking the song you've got up. ill be at the gig on 10th with modey and pabh already got it booked, didnt realise you were playing though, i got told it was 'the humour' (ergh!) hehe.
For this Forest of Sound we’re getting together with our good friends at Misplaced Music to celebrate the release of Gareth S. Brown’s new album, The Gallows on Misplaced Music (order here).
Bracken makes simply stunning music - walls of ambient sound, dark dub bass and atmospheres, destroyed and re-claimed found sound, beats that range from over-powering to perfectly understated.
Gareth S. Brown creates gorgeous work of layered beauty with nods towards Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Michael Nyman as well as latter day travellers such as Max Richter, Yann Tiersen and Aphex Twin.
Sketches for Albinos makes a sound that manages to be both truly heartfelt and organic, but also encompassing the majestic glacial soundscapes that would make the likes of Tim Hecker or Fennesz proud.
The Declining Winter are a new musical project, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of Domino Records group Hood, and is influenced by the music of Low, The Durutti Column, Songs of Green Pheasant and more. They have recently toured with ambient legends, Stars of the Lid. Live they’re a wonderful, beautiful, pastoral experience.
Friday: 1/8/2008 @ The Packhorse, Leeds. Doors 7.30pm. £5 on the door. Join the last fm fun here.
PLUMMER’S WORLD SANGUINE REPORT World Sanguine Report were forged together to sound the notes penned by Andrew Plummer. Featuring innovative musicians from both the London and Leeds jazz and new music scenes; they form a frightening and formidable ensemble; strength and beauty, heavy as lead. Plummer who “is quite clearly a deranged swamp beast trapped inside the body of an Englishman” (Wrath Records) pens music that reinterprets musical genre through juxtaposition of compositional techniques, cut throat improvisations and song. Drawing on a wealth of influences (Kagel, Scelsci, Beefheart, Messiaen, Waits, Patton to name but a few), the result is a violent, beautiful journey through the undergrowth of ‘gauzlin web stuck stick’. 7-man romp, 3 parts Bilbao Syndrome, feat. J. Allsopp, A. Bonney, M. Bourne; T. Greenhalgh; D. Kane; A. Plummer; C. Sharkey. www. andrewplummer. co. uk
