{"id":75677,"date":"2019-01-30T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=75677"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:25:39","slug":"review-mono-nowhere-now-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-mono-nowhere-now-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: MONO &#8211; Nowhere Now Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-75680 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MONOWHERE.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>20 years after their humble formation, the legendary Japanese\u00a0post-rock three-piece delight us with a less concept based follow up to 2016&#8217;s <em>&#8216;Requiem For Hell&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em>Inspired throughout their career not only by the likes of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, <strong>MONO<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0breathtakingly atmospheric sound makes you feel like you&#8217;re part of something bigger and cinematic, especially as they have returned to Steve Albini, who once again delivers painstakingly sharp production values.<\/p>\n<p>Structurally their longer songs still carry the same formula. Following from the wailing, despair filled horns on &#8216;<em>God Bless&#8217;,<\/em> <em>&#8216;After You Comes The Flood&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>builds up with a hazy\u00a0wall of guitar noise, each drum beat sounds like you can feel it ripping through your chest, before a truly bludgeoning\u00a0crescendo that does an incredible job of capturing the euphoric release of tension present in their live performances.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"MONO - Breathe (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhYGWNMSS-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The biggest curveball that <strong>MONO\u00a0<\/strong>have thrown into the mix this time, is the inclusion of bassist Tamaki Kunishi&#8217;s previously unheard vocals on <em>&#8216;Breathe&#8217;,<\/em> laced with Lynchian overtones with a foreboding\u00a0synth that shatters you to your very core.\u00a0 Not that <strong>MONO\u00a0<\/strong>necessarily need lyrics and vocals to enhance their trademark sound at this stage in their discography, but they are still a welcomed contribution nonetheless, with Kunishi gently lulling us with the minimalistic lines: <em>&#8220;Let me go, with the way do wind, I breathe to see you.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on <em>&#8216;Nowhere Now Here&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em>it feels like the shorter tracks are far more concentrated in their emotional impact, as is very much the case with\u00a0<em>&#8216;Funeral Song&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>and &#8216;<em>Parting&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>that outshines the likes of a lot of modern theatrical scores.\u00a0 The blissful orchestral strings ornament the more blaring earth-shattering moments on here and allow you to savour the alluring emotional climaxes.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,\u00a0<em> &#8216;Nowhere Now Here&#8217;<\/em> is yet another expansive sonic adventure that stays true to the escapism we all crave from the ever groundbreaking genre of post-rock.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Nowhere Now Here&#8217;<\/em> by <strong>MONO<\/strong> is out now on\u00a0<strong>Pelagic Records.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MONO\u00a0<\/strong>links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monoofjapan.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monoofjapan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monoofjapan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/monoofjapan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ashwin Bhandari (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GIVEUPOX17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GIVEUPOX17)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;Nowhere Now Here&#8217; is yet another expansive sonic adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":75680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[15315,2823,16528,2139],"class_list":["post-75677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-ashwin-bhandari","tag-mono","tag-nowhere-now-here","tag-pelagic-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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