Monarch

We are a two piece band from Baltimore. We be knowin each other til Armageddon.PRESS:"It's a pop song dressed up in layers and layers of feedbacking guitars and slightly distorted, sing-song vocals by Jenn Wasner, and it sounds like the work of at least fifteen musical scientists instead of two."
----- Track Review in Idolator**************************************----- Track Review in Fluxblog**************************************"If Children proves that Monarch is catchy--a rare commodity in a subgenre so fixated on texture. Despite the gorgeous break for some watery guitar around 2:20, "Warning" is as sing-along memorable--if you can make out the words, that is--as any indie-rock tune you'll hear this year"
-----Full Review in Baltimore City Paper**************************************"If Children mingles in a room full of shoegaze, alt-country, folk, and noise, shaking hands, kissing cheeks, and making friends with everyone."
-----Full Review in Any Given Tuesday**************************************"Labelling Monarch as shoegazers is convenient and neat but not entirely representative of their sound. Like the Cocteau Twins jamming with Woody Guthrie , or Lush if they'd been raised on a diet of Uncle Tupelo, Monarch songs have the translucent, dreamlike quality of the best of the shoegazing genre but they also incorporate elements of their alt country heritage."
----- Track Review in The Devil Has the Best Tuna (UK)**************************************"This isn’t indie rock. It’s more. And when it all falls apart there is a melodic pop factor holding it together. And under all that there is a sonic swirl that I know and love."
----- Record Review in Olympus Mons **************************************----- Review at The Last Pop Song (Germany)**************************************----- Review at Milk Milk Lemonade**************************************----- Review at BiBaBiDi**************************************----- Download of the Day at Little Radio**************************************----- Full Radio Feature by The Signal on 88.1 WYPR Baltimore**************************************----- Record Review at Quarterlife Party**************************************"Seemingly co-writing with ease, this multiple-instrumentalist young duo have the ability to make effortless gorgeous lush dreamy indie pop that evokes the good ol days when a wall of guitars could put you in a happy pensive mood."
----- Hear Good Music Feature in Wongie's Music World**************************************----- Review in Instrumental Analysis**************************************----- Meet the Band Feature in Baltimore Sun**************************************We would've been happy to go home with just one new favorite local band, but then Monarch went and stole our hearts, too, the rare indie rock two-piece that could pass for a trio or quartet when you close your eyes. [Wasner's] unconventional chords lent a bit of edge to what were basically charming campfire songs that we can't wait to hear again
----- Full Live Review in Baltimore City Paper**************************************But the standout stars of the night were the duo that goes by the name of Monarch . . . Vocalist Wasner is very unassuming as a lead singer, but when she starts singing and playing guitar everything comes out with an emotional intensity that grabs the entire audience.
----- Full Live Review at Quarterlife Party