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Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind.
After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONOs trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.
Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductors opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments
While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONOs music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONOs strongest virtue.
01. Ashes in the Snow (11:45) 02. Burial at Sea (10:38) 03. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn ( 6:00) 04. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm) (11:25) 05. Follow the Map ( 3:55) 06. The Battle to Heaven (12:51) 07. Everlasting Light (10:23)
This is godsent. I'm speechless.
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Post subject: Re: Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:01 pm
Team Binaural
Joined: Wed May 24, 2006 5:23 pm Posts: 12793 Location: Tours, FR Gender: Male
I guess I had it coming.
My concern is that I'm not sure how it would be to listen to this kind of music in a live setting. Usually I listen to post-rock and the likes all by myself, headphones on, eyes closed, etc.
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Post subject: Re: Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:23 pm
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:51 am Posts: 17078 Location: TX
Post-rock concerts bring out the best crowds of any genre I have seen live. Basically any show I go to people are obnoxious and it detracts from the experience for me.
At post-rock shows people stand there and listen, period.
Post subject: Re: Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:33 pm
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Buffalohed wrote:
Post-rock concerts bring out the best crowds of any genre I have seen live. Basically any show I go to people are obnoxious and it detracts from the experience for me.
At post-rock shows people stand there and listen, period.
Yeah but we're talking about Parisians here. Anyway, it's very tempting.
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Post subject: Re: Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:55 pm
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:51 am Posts: 17078 Location: TX
BadMusic wrote:
Buffalohed wrote:
Post-rock concerts bring out the best crowds of any genre I have seen live. Basically any show I go to people are obnoxious and it detracts from the experience for me.
At post-rock shows people stand there and listen, period.
Yeah but we're talking about Parisians here. Anyway, it's very tempting.
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