The Monochrome Set – Cosmonaut (from the album Cosmonaut, Tapete Records)
There’s a great swagger about this title track from the 13th album by The Monochrome Set, who are something of a cultural institution at this stage.
Bid is in excellent and provocative voice and the guitars (12 string Rickenbacker by the [wonderful] sounds of it) roll around with a fantastic barrelling energy.
Don’t take my word for it, this is the Tapete one sheet -
The title track opens with a Theremin cyber fly buzzing towards your skull before the song hits, launching you into a mirror dimension that is both familiar and alien. The whole album is a trip that starts with a hallucinating cash-till lady, then travels through dream-sets involving cannibalism, disaffected squirrels, strange gods, dying sweethearts, sexual depravity, Alzheimer's, backward evolution, and ends in an operating theatre, amid a sea of medical tentacles.
In short, a camping holiday.
Very good. You would need an antidote of this order to get hrough the whole Butlins experience.
Invigorating and poetic post punk.
Bid is in excellent and provocative voice and the guitars (12 string Rickenbacker by the [wonderful] sounds of it) roll around with a fantastic barrelling energy.
Don’t take my word for it, this is the Tapete one sheet -
The title track opens with a Theremin cyber fly buzzing towards your skull before the song hits, launching you into a mirror dimension that is both familiar and alien. The whole album is a trip that starts with a hallucinating cash-till lady, then travels through dream-sets involving cannibalism, disaffected squirrels, strange gods, dying sweethearts, sexual depravity, Alzheimer's, backward evolution, and ends in an operating theatre, amid a sea of medical tentacles.
In short, a camping holiday.
Very good. You would need an antidote of this order to get hrough the whole Butlins experience.
Invigorating and poetic post punk.
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