MONO – Ely's Heartbeat by Temporary Residence Ltd published on 2016-08-09T20:12:16Z Artist: MONO Title: Ely's Heartbeat Album: Requiem For Hell Release Date: October 14, 2016 Pre-Order: https://www.temporaryresidence.com/collections/mono/products/trr273 MONO are a band driven by intangible conflicts. Their albums have found inspiration in the inescapable coexistence of love and loss, faith and hopelessness, light and darkness. Fittingly, their new album, Requiem For Hell, incorporates all of those conflicts into the one universal inevitability in life: Birth, and death. Requiem For Hell finds MONO returning to longtime friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. After MONO and Albini's band, Shellac, toured Japan together last year, they realized how much they missed the (often wordless) creative dialogue they shared during the making of many of their most memorable albums – beginning with Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... (2004) and culminating with Hymn To Immortal Wind (2009). The rebirth of the Albini collaboration for Requiem For Hell also coincided with the birth of a close friend's first child, whose actual in utero heartbeat serves as the foundation for the aptly named "Ely's Heartbeat." For MONO, it all felt so right, so inevitable. Requiem For Hell is undeniably heavier and scarier than most of MONO's output to this point – hear the dizzying 18-minute title track for example – but it also carries some of their most sublime moments. This dichotomy is how one band’s obsession with conflict has manifested itself into one of underground music's simultaneously quietest and loudest catalogs. Genre Alternative Rock Comment by dora minh Cani have the background image pls 2020-05-17T18:07:41Z Comment by echorich Masterful! - but same album cover as Brilliant's Colours single from 1983. Classic Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp) artwork after a Gustave Doré illustration. 2016-10-08T19:32:02Z Comment by Eurico Brandão MONO 2016-09-18T23:08:05Z Comment by ﻣَ͠چـﯾـد ✧ قعر 2016-09-08T10:19:13Z Comment by cavan brady this is amazing 2016-09-06T03:48:55Z Comment by Luba forever 2016-08-31T17:14:34Z Comment by Olga Kolisoglou Oh ..that guitar sound.. Forever loved.. I can not wait listen more to this. 2016-08-31T12:47:45Z Comment by Nick Wood 11 So looking forward to this, what a fantastic taster track for the album. 2016-08-30T17:04:32Z