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Monocle

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About Me

Monocle is a band from Brooklyn... ten hands, textures and melodies, transistors and inner tubes, waves and fiberglass, alien moonlit dinners, harmonic tartar... band biology: keyboards, transistor organs, guitar saturation and dry intimacy, vox everywhere, drums and bass. Invented in 2005. Discography: Lounge Act (2005 EP Pralaya Records), Outer Sunset (2007 LP Hidden Shoal Recordings)

Out Now Through Hidden Shoal Recordings:

Outer Sunset is available at the following online stores:

Lounge Act EP (2006) available here!(add Monocle's Lounge Act to my collection)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/6/2006
Band Members: Ego / Rich - Matthew - Sunny - Dan - Max ()()()()()()() Alter-Ego / Rich - Matthew - Annie - Blake - Max
Influences: Jobim, Badalamenti, Cocteau Twins, Bernard Fevre, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dymaxion, Brian Eno, Beach Boys, Komeda (the band and the composer), Bartok, Hotels, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Cardigans, Cluster, Ennio Morricone, Donald Fagen, Ghost Box, Museum Of Natural History, Jean Jacques Perrey, Neu, Pat Metheny Group, Raymond Scott, The Sundays, Joseph Campbell, Blonde Redhead, Sven Libaek, and synthesizers that sound like they're dying.
Sounds Like: The soundtrack to approaching Donald Fagen's underwater mansion.
Record Label: Hidden Shoal
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Music For Underwater Supermarkets

Hello all, just wanted to let everyone out there know that Hidden Shoal Recordings will be releasing a new album called "Music For Underwater Supermarkets," a mini album solo project written by Rich B...
Posted by Monocle on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:19:00 PST

West Coast yall!

As the rest of the world outside my window prepares to grill, get drunk, and blow up a tiny piece of New York City, Matt Filler and I are getting ready to head out to the West Coast to do some rocking...
Posted by Monocle on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:17:00 PST

Monocle Featured on Spacelab

For a short while, Monocle will be featured on the Spacelab website as part of the "Sound lab" series. You can go, listen to full versions of songs which you can't hear on MySpace, and vote on whethe...
Posted by Monocle on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:30:00 PST

Some new reviews

Hello all,This month we were lucky enough to get reviewed in Textura, an awesome online publication with tons of cool reviews, interviews, and all those other things you crazy music kids like to read ...
Posted by Monocle on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST

Review on Delusions of Adequacy

Our first review of Outer Sunset, and some very nice words from the folks at Adequacy.net. Here's a bit of what they said:"Outer Sunset has a subtle energy that flows almost tangibly throughout each ...
Posted by Monocle on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:42:00 PST

New Album Out on November 27th!

The proud members of your favorite auditory-lotion lathering mystery sensualcinema pop unit are thrilled to announce the release of our new album andimpassioned debut full-length, OUTER SUNSET; featur...
Posted by Monocle on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:16:00 PST

Monocle Signs to Hidden Shoal Recordings

Ahhhh yes... Monocle will be releasing our debut full-length, Outer Sunset, with Hidden Shoal Recording in November, music.hiddenshoal.com. A word from the press release about what were about to unlea...
Posted by Monocle on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:27:00 PST

Where to buy our album + Stereolab Tribute

We now have a few places that are selling our cd, so please check them out and all the other great stuff each site carries:Amp Camp (www.ampcamp.com)ToneVendor (www.tonevendor.com)Pralaya Records (www...
Posted by Monocle on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:06:00 PST

Monocle will now proceed to actually rock you

Some great news from the front. Our 4 song EP, Lounge Act, has finally been completed and will be available for purchase very very soon. 2 of the songs are posted on the page for now. Also, we will...
Posted by Monocle on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:58:00 PST

News and Updates

Right now we are still working on our 4 song EP which should be out within a month or 2. The two songs posted now are just rough mixes and teasers from the album to get y'all hungry for some more. A...
Posted by Monocle on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:45:00 PST