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| Monday's Songs Without Words |
Why didn’t you use vocalists? Mike Monday was asked.Because producers use vocalists when they aren’t ambitious enough, Monday replied. They think they can’t do real emotion without words. I think that’s crap. Anything you can feel, you can convey in music. And better, the listener can pull a lot more personal meaning out of an instrumental than a set of lyrics... Hence Monday’s second album, Songs Without Words. It’s an album with exactly one tiny vocal snippet across the whole platter. But it’s got the broad emotional and experimental charge you get from the best electronic albums, and which you’ll never get from the third-grade poetry of song-based rock and indie. From moody, detailed stoner soundscapes to purely experimental electronica to the sly and silly funk for which Monday was known in the past, Songs is a long way from Monday’s debut - and a hell of a long way from Monday’s early days as a purely dancefloor producer. It’s a pick-and-mix approach also reflected in his upcoming live show. Drawing on Monday’s background as a saxophonist and a desire to go “well past the laptop”, Monday’s live gigs next year will incorporate Heath-Robinson-like synth contraptions driven by a saxophone, a band of bald men in glasses, and the showmanship of Monday’s first band - one of the first live house acts, Beat Foundation, which disbanded in the 90s went Andy Cato left to form Groove Armada. So it’s got a sense of humour - which puts it far from electronica’s usual monotony. But it’s also the most serious, committed European electronica acts who support Monday’s attempts to pull electronica out of its dance-focused rut. Tracklisting: 01. Grace 02. Through The Keyhole 03. Catnip 04. Bad Wind (With a Touch of Acid) 05. The 11 11 06. Along Came Nookie 07. I Am Plankton 08. Salieri Complex 09. The Unanswered Question 10. Stargirl 'Songs Without Words' by Mike Monday will be released in September, 2008. |
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