Who would have thought that this hellacious year would give us the first new Thelonious Monster record since 2004? Well, we\u2019ve got it and it also includes four original members including longtime MIA guitarist Chris Handsome! This is basically a group of longtime friends getting together to make music and see what comes out of it. No huge expectations or anything, just friends making music. <\/p>\n
\u201cDisappear\u201d has some great vocals from Bob Forrest, while \u201cFalling Behind\u201d has a nice breezy feel to it, which is unlike a lot of other Monster tracks but it\u2019s a nice change of pace that suits the band these days. This is a way more subdued Monster than we\u2019ve previously heard, but that\u2019s what I can imagine happens when punk bands get older. It\u2019s just nice to see and hear them having so much fun with what they\u2019re doing and recording the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cElijah\u201d is a good song but the production suffers. The sound is a bit too harsh and not clear enough, but otherwise it\u2019s got a lot of energy and one of the best tracks on the record. That\u2019s a title that is shared with \u201cSixteen Angels,\u201d a downbeat track with blues harmonica and some good playing from the band. Some of Forrest\u2019s best vocals I\u2019ve encountered are on this song and it\u2019s nice to know he\u2019s still capable of surprising us.<\/p>\n
\u201cLA Divorce\u201d is another good track but if one was coming here thinking they were gonna hear some ragtag punk rock, they best be looking for another record. This sort of record is akin to a melodic, mature folk, singer-songwriter record and that suits the Monster just fine. It just feels nice to say that the Monster is still alive and doesn\u2019t look to be heading for the hills anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10587],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-46032","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-thelonious-monster","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46032"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46032"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}