MonotonixNot Yet
Drag City
2011
Rating: 6 tiny pairs of sweaty shorts out of 10
Last time I saw these Israeli nutbags the singer, Ami Shalev, was "singing" from inside of a trash can while crowd surfing. The actual music of Monotonix is kinda beside the point. Not that it's bad music - a sort of stompy garage sound that owes a lot to pre-punk Detroit - but it's nothing special. It doesn't get stuck in your head. You don't yearn to hear it. You do want to see the band live though, assuming they go back on the road as they are currently on a family "time out", aka somebody had a kid and the wife is probably tired of doing all the work herself. Listening to the record is no prerequisite to enjoying their live show either, as the music produced in that sweaty, beer soaked setting is an utter mess. A super fun, total and complete mess.
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