Monozid – “Say Hello to Artificial Grey” album review
… to go, away
That’s far too late
“Lets shake hands and wonder”
“Say hello to artificial grey” is the first full-length album of “Monozid”, a German indie/post-punk band which is already known by its EPs “Erstens” and “Waiting for the circus”, released on a French web-label “Zorch Factory Records”. So, the first album can be considered as a logical continuation of these releases, in which the band reached its peak. The band developed its musical ideas in a really best way it could. Indie rock “softness” is combined with post-punk dynamism and noise-rock guitar additions which fit the music and don’t seem harsh. But on the other hand, the album, as the “peak” one is also very contradictory. The musical pattern of the release sounds much unified as if there were no separate songs. So, this unity “swallows” many potential hits, such as lyrical “Lets shake hands and wonder”, post-punky driven “Du bist mein mann, Sabrina”, instrumental coldwave masterpiece “Stanislawa popielska” and many others. So the band still has many things to solve. However, “Say hello to artificial grey” sounds very fresh, attractive and interesting, and can be extremely highly recommended to those ones, who enjoyed the previous band’s releases as well as to those, who look for something new in indie, post-punk or early coldwave music.
Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy
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