News Added Sep 03, 2014 Instrumental japanese giants come back with 2 new albums in 2014: a "white" beautiful collection of melodies and feelings of hope and joy (The Last Dawn) and it's evil twin (Rays Of Darkness) symmetrically opposed. It's shoegaze, film score music vs doom crushy riffs, the ultimate sonic equilibrium. Submitted By […]

Mono The Last Dawn / Rays of Darkness


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Instrumental japanese giants come back with 2 new albums in 2014: a "white" beautiful collection of melodies and feelings of hope and joy (The Last Dawn) and it's evil twin (Rays Of Darkness) symmetrically opposed. It's shoegaze, film score music vs doom crushy riffs, the ultimate sonic equilibrium.

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Track list (The Last Dawn):

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1. The Land Between Tides / Glory
2. Kanata
3. Cyclone
4. Elysian Castles
5. Where We Begin
6. The Last Dawn

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Track list (Rays of Darkness):

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1. Recoil, Ignite
2. Surrender
3. The Hand That Holds The Truth
4. The Last Rays

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Where We Begin

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Recoil, Ignite

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Recoil, Ignite (Part II)

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The Last Dawn and Rays of Darkness are a pair of new albums by MONO. Recorded simultaneously yet conceptually and creatively disparate, the two act as both opposing and complementary sides to a story. No strangers to narratives, the twin albums explore familiar themes for the band: Hope and hopelessness, love and loss, immense joy and unspeakable pain. Those elemental parts of life and the complicated relationships they create have never been more resonant through MONO's music than they are here.

The Last Dawn is the first of these two companion albums, and is the "lighter" of the two, thematically and melodically. It contains undoubtedly some of MONO's strongest songs ever, drawing on an array of influences from minimalist film score to vintage shoegaze. It is MONO at their absolute purest, executing an uncanny, unspoken dialogue with each other without the dozens of stringed instruments that have been so prominent throughout their catalog in recent years. The songs are also noticeably more efficient – there hasn't been a MONO full-length record that fit on a single slab of vinyl since 2003's One Step More And You Die – and the album benefits immeasurably from this streamlined approach. MONO have always been masters of telling compelling stories without words. But now they've proven they can do it without frills, too.

Rays of Darkness is the first MONO album in 15 years to feature no orchestral instruments whatsoever. That fact alone is remarkable given the band's reputation for sweeping, dramatic instrumentals that recall Oscar-worthy film scores. Instead, Rays of Darkness more closely resembles a jet engine taking off inside a small, crowded auditorium. It is MONO's blackest album ever, a collection of scorched riffs, doom rhythms, and an unexpected contribution from post-hardcore pioneer Tetsu Fukagawa of Envy. The album ends with the smoldering wreckage of distorted guitars and ominous drones playing out a eulogy to the days when MONO shot blinding rays of light through seemingly endless darkness.

MONO ✕ KOJI MORIMOTO - Rays of Darkness & The Last Dawn (Official Trailer Video)

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Mono's Rays of Darkness has leaked on New Album Releases.

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  • PopCultureIsDead
    @robilomas Level 4
    October 6, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    Only “The Last Dawn” has leaked so far. Here was an album I truly wanted to love, if only based on “Where We Begin”, and after two spins, I’m just feeling OK about it. I blame this on my expectations.

    Perhaps it’s a grower.

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    • Kasper
      @k-2 Level 5
      October 6, 2014 at 9:33 pm

      I’ll wait for Rays of Darkness to leak before I give both a listen, really like the aesthetics, but I’m not expecting that much.

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      • PopCultureIsDead
        @robilomas Level 4
        October 14, 2014 at 2:53 pm

        “Rays of Darkness” is the better of the two. It stands well on its own, but also as the flip side to “The Last Dawn”. Didn’t mind much Tetsu Fukagawa’s vocals on “The Hand That Holds The Truth”, although I admittedly jumped at the first lyric…

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        • Kasper
          @k-2 Level 5
          October 25, 2014 at 9:37 am

          Really loved his vocal contribution.
          Funny how it’s a bit of a counterpoint to all the ‘blackgaze’ outfits softening up, a post-rock outfit starts adopting ‘screamed’ vocals.
          But yeah, Rays of Darkness is the better one.

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