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New Album 'Prayerbook' - Now available

In the first week of every month of 2007 a brand new MLP track was made available for download from this page - ultimately forming the new 12-track Monica's Last Prayer album, 'Prayerbook'. The full track list for the album was 'Blue', 'Valentine', 'Pieces', 'Seasick', 'Land', 'Reverie', 'Omen', 'Prayerbook', 'Youths', 'Clarity', 'Two' and 'Celebrate'. A CD version of the album is now available - with all 12 tracks being remixed and remastered (and some extensively re-recorded). Click here for more details. Monicaâ€™s Last Prayer began life in the early 1990s, as a side project for Paul Broome (at the time guitarist with rising Goth band Earth Calling Angela). In 1996 Mick Mercer called Paul â€œa modern-day weeping equivalent to Nick Drakeâ€ in his book The Hex Files. After working on several other projects in the early years of this century, Paul returned to Monicaâ€™s Last Prayer in 2004 â€“ rearranging and re-recording some of the old four-track songs. The result was the album Another Time, released in January 2005 by Humane Music â€“ a catalog of MLPâ€™s history, and a gentle nudge toward the future. The album received glowing reviews: "...this lovely record, is easily representative of the general quality of all Broome-related music, and you are at the start of some enchanting excavations. What comes next will be fascinating." "â€¦the future is looking very excitingâ€¦ Paulâ€™s voice is really strongâ€¦ More of the same please! Recommend that you buy this and support a great independent artist!" The 2005 album, Transparent, was somewhat of a departure from the reverb-soaked reverie of what has gone before, but it also felt like a natural progression. It has its feet in similar edgy territory to the likes of recent Depeche Mode and The Cure, but at the same time retains a gentle poignancy that is uniquely Monicaâ€™s Last Prayer.We are now live on last.fm as well!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/10/2006
Band Website: monicaslastprayer.co.uk
Band Members: Paul Broome
Heather Slater
Influences: Heather Slater, The Cure, And Also The Trees, Tom Waits, Julian Cope, Cranes, David Bowie, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Adam Ant, This Mortal Coil, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Swans, Magazine, Lycia, Skeletal Family, Be-Bop Deluxe, Bill Nelson, Christian Death, The Sisters of Mercy, Bill Pritchard, This Mortal Coil, Neu!, Portishead, Mazzy Star, Cindytalk, John McDonagh, All About Eve, The Blue Nile, Attrition, The God Machine, Sonic Youth, Shadow Project, Strange Boutique, The Mission, Tones on Tail, Fields of the Nephilim, Scott Walker, Love, EinstÃ¼rzende Neubaten, Chrome, MBV, Mick Harvey, Tubeway Army, The Chameleons, the Machine in the Garden, Nick Drake, Depeche Mode, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Miranda Sex Garden, Talking Heads, The Tear Garden, Loop, Tim Buckley, Coil, Pavement, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Popol Vuh, Suicide...
Sounds Like: However it turns out... I wish I had a masterplan. But I don't. I had one. I lost it.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Prayerbook CD - Now Available

For once I've managed to not only fulfil a scheduling promise, but exceed it! The re-recorded and remastered CD release of the Prayerbook album is now available - released on our own new Dark Cu...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:29:00 PST

Prayerbook - CD Release!

I bring you news on the official CD release for Prayerbook. We've spent the last month or so slaving over the original recordings, adding extra bits and pieces, taking away other bits and pieces...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:02:00 PST

Apologies

Sorry for the lack of contact and updates on here this year. I needed a bit of a break after last year’s intensities. Hopefully I can keep on top of things from now on. So, fee...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:37:00 PST

Final Prayerbook song, now available.

December's song, track 12, 'Celebrate' has now been uploaded. So that's it. Prayerbook is completed.Hope you enjoy it. 'Celebrate' is dedicated to the memory of Stuart Evans.Hugs,Paul.p.s....
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:08:00 PST

November Song (Two) Now Available...

The late November song (entitled 'Two') is now complete and uploaded for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy it.It's a moody epic of a track - once again featuring Miss Heather Slater on the...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:08:00 PST

Change to the Schedule...

Happy Halloween! Just a quick message to let you know of a change to the schedule for the last two Prayerbook tracks. I've decided to postpone unleashing them for a few weeks so that I can...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST

October Song (Clarity) Now Available!

On schedule again, October's Prayerbook song - Clarity - is now available for your listening pleasure. And yes, it's not in 4/4!Only two more to go now. I can feel the pressure starting to...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:42:00 PST

September Song - uploaded early!

September's 'Prayerbook' song is now available for streaming and downloading. 'Youths' (subtitle: 'The Chav and the Grandfather') has been ready for a week or so, and I was getting itchy feet - ...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:54:00 PST

September Song

...is already finished. What can I say? I'm on a roll.Expect another Prayerbook 180 degree shift in direction, we are after all heading toward the climax - it's time to shake the plot up a littl...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:28:00 PST

August Song Now Uploaded

Not sure when it will start working, but hey-ho. Patience is a virtue.This month's song is an instrumental. It's also the title track of the album. By the time the album proper is re...
Posted by Monicas Last Prayer on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:36:00 PST