Monobrow: A Decorative Piece of Time Vinyl Out Now
Canadian heavy instrumentalists Monobrow have made their new album, A Decorative Piece of Time, available as a limited edition LP. I’ll be honest and say it’s been a while since I’ve heard the Ottawa-based outfit. My own fault, I’m sure. Their last outing was 2017’s The Nacarat, which I missed out on covering owing to the usual I-suck-at-life-I-suck-at-this-blah-blah, but I recall fondly their prior work on 2015’s A Handwritten Letter From the Moon EP (review here), 2014’s Big Sky, Black Horse (review here), which was their third album, as well as their 2010 self-titled debut (review here), which they answered with 2012’s Bennington Triangle Blues. I guess I’ve bene in and out for a while now. Like I said, I suck at this.
But if you believe in due, I’m due for digging into some Monobrow, so the release earlier this month digitally of A Decorative Piece of Time, followed by this limited vinyl edition, is a welcome chance to hear the three-piece flesh out weighted instru-heavy prog on six new tracks. You’ll pardon me if I take advantage, and if you’d like to do likewise, the Bandcamp player’s at the bottom of this post.
The PR wire comes through again:
Monobrow’s new album, A Decorative Piece of Time, released on limited edition pink vinyl
Time.
2021. Does time mean anything anymore?
As our sense of time becomes more and more distorted, Ottawa’s Monobrow presents a 45-minute respite from the new abnormal, in the form of their fifth opus, A Decorative Piece of Time on Trill or be Trilled Records. In the four orbital spins since 2017’s instrumental rock opera, The Nacarat, Monobrow have continued to further their aural sensibilities, combining both rawness and intricacy into unique alchemy of doom, psych, progressive, and stoner styles. Riff-based and catchy, spacey and atmospheric, Monobrow manage to be both epic and economical, with lengthy tracks wasting nary a second. Their power trio approach is augmented with flourishes of synths and spectral trumpet moans, courtesy of Scott Thompson (The Band Whose Name is a Symbol). The album was engineered by Mike Bond at Wolf Lake Studios, and was mixed and mastered by Topon Das at Apartment 2 Recording.
A Decorative Piece of Time once again features the striking, distinctive artwork of Stephen MacDonald (Task at Hand). It is available as a limited edition, pink vinyl release, as well as in an even more limited deluxe version, featuring silk-screened, alternate artwork.
A Decorative Piece of Time. August 2021.
There are no words.
Tracklisting:
1. Epoch (t0) 02:43
2. Argument (w) 08:15
3. Ascension ([OMEGA]) 10:17
4. Drag (N1) 07:27
5. Inclination (i) 05:19
6. Eccentricity (e) 09:57
Trill or be Trilled Records.
Recorded and Engineered by Mike Bond at Wolf Lake Studios
Mixed by Topon Das and Monobrow at Apt. 2 Recording
Mastered by Topon Das at Apt. 2 Recording
Additional Trumpets by Scott Thompson
Artwork by Task at Hand Illustration and Design
Monobrow are:
Brian Ahopelto – Drums and Synth
Sam Beydoun – Bass and Synth
Paul Slater – Guitars
https://monobrowmanband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/monobrowmanband
https://www.instagram.com/theonebrow/
