MORE SONGS ABOUT APARTMENTS & LUNCH bandcamp day release

LIVE EP recorded in my apartment for clare's benefit show!

"TONIGHT LOOKS BAD"

 presenting our first album as a trio, "Tonight Looks Bad", recorded by isaac levine, mastered by fred thomas, we think its good but sort of cursed and its 9 songs and its out now.

"TOO CLOSE" & "ZONE COLD"

hello,

the next two monogamy releases are here today. one is Side wound worship #04, called Too Close, and the other is Side Wound worship #05, called Zone Cold. they are available in the digital medium for a "pay what you want" rate. when the quarantine is over they will each be dubbed onto one side of a tape and sold here and at shows. this is the first time a monogamy release has been assembled for a digital medium so special consideration has been provided to presentation and i hope you enjoy this aspect of the release, there are nice notes i've put up with it on bandcamp as well as included as a txt with the release.

the decision to release music at this time was not made lightly, and the intent is to provide friends, listeners, curious ppl with a gentle distraction through this weird period, and to take advantage of a months-long moratorium on live shows to document some of the current material. this project was already about halfway complete and so the timeline was moved ahead and some sessions came together during mid-late march. so please enjoy these recordings as i'm very sad to not have a chance to play for you in person.


Too Close is sort of the spring piece, loud rock and pop songs to play with the window open during the sunlight hours. if you like this ep please dial a friend on the phone and say hi and tell them that you're thinking of this.


Zone Cold is the summer one, its zoner works and slimeball material for your blistering hot summer nights alone sweating on your bed and for your flashbacks of heated evenings. if you have a car please drive around to this very fast within reason.

thanks for listening. i hope you dig these and they get you thru it. this is the spring/summer drop, come back in a few months for the fall/winter...

IMAGINARY DONKEYS SHRIMPER COMPILATION TAPE

we covered "Cheap Sunglasses" by Human Hearts, which was a Franklin Bruno band. Toni did vocals and don played guitar and electronics and harmonica. recorded and mixed at 3orbs on completely broken headphones. Double 70 minute tape compilation with individual artwork by Luigi. we love Almost Halloween Time and if Luigi says jump i say how high. especially if it means digging through Shrimper tapes. we would have done a paste song but everyone else was doing paste songs. anyway heres bandcamp for it

L'INFERNO and NEXT GIG

nha trang was sick let's keep it going with a gig at reed's basement in dear detroit:

Also doing some year end accounting I found a good recording of an improvized set I threw down fr a live screening of L'Inferno at Agitator Co-op Gallery here in chicago. Check out a track here:



and if you want to hear it all/download it pay what you want check here:

OUR NEXT GIG

Going to be a good show

SPLIT W/ SCLT

split w/ SCLT - the new tape by monogamy - an album in two parts by two different guys in two different states. ORDER HERE!!!!

VID FOR DEPARTURE:


from Reserve Matinee:

"RM034

Reserve Matinee is rather stoked to present a split album between Chicago-based group Monogamy and Ann Arbor-based solo artist SCLT.

Originally hailing from Michigan, Monogamy is made up of Don Lyons, Sam Johnson and Toni "Tone Bone" Wang. After tapes on Rok Lok Records, Kerchow Records and Human Male Press, they return to the saddle for RM. For this split, they present five tracks that span rock, noise, and a rather playful, magnetic brand of avant post-punk. Given their involvement in the tight-knit Midwest scenes of DIY Michigan (Ann Arbor/Detroit) and Chicago, the styles and influences shown here are both representative and furthering via their own unique voice & take.
"Apartment" exemplifies the colorful instrumentation of the band, with a ripping saxophone solo amidst blurred loops and what appears to be effects-processed guitar noise. Elements especially melt together when Monogamy is performing live on stage, like a sonic tapestry being woven in real-time.

Watch a music video for "Departure": www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfr6ZZbJ_Z0&t=3s

SCLT (aka Socialite)'s side of the split matches Monogamy's warm tones, through more ambient means, much like their 2017 release on Fred Thomas' imprint Lifelike. Heavy-lidded drone and nocturnal field recordings escort you as "Ripcord of Emotion" kicks off, preparing the way for the emotional standout "The House Beneath The Pines, Lying On The Coastline". Buried saxophone and oscillating, airy recordings of what could be a strong wind, akin to the feeling of sticking your arm out of the window on a nearly-empty I-94 drive. Each piece of SCLT's offering plays like a short letter written from the artist, soft arpeggios dotting the edges of a scenic path that is always available, for those who remember its location.

This split album is available on a limited cassette featuring artwork by Michael Stumpf. "

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