Mono-Hymn_To_The_Immortal_Wind-(Advance)-2009-FNT

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  Artist:      Mono
  Album:       Hymn To The Immortal Wind
  Label:       Human Highway Records
  Playtime:    66:57 min
  Genre:       Rock
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  Rip date:    2009-02-05
  Street date: 2009-00-00
  Size:        99.63 MB
  Type:        Advance
  Quality:     195 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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   Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth
   studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind.

   After touring almost non-stop for five years, the band hibernated for over a
   year to focus solely on writing Hymn. The result is their most thoughtful and
   eclectic album to date. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic
   narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love
   story. The music is naturally majestic, with MONOÆs trademark wall of noise
   crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever
   enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ,
   piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.

   Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini,
   there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little
   terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their
   seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes,
   and even the conductorÆs opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet
   opening moments

   While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's
   music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of
   quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has
   become MONOÆs strongest virtue.

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  01. Ashes in the Snow                                                 (11:45)
  02. Burial at Sea                                                     (10:38)
  03. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn                                      ( 6:00)
  04. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)                         (11:25)
  05. Follow the Map                                                    ( 3:55)
  06. The Battle to Heaven                                              (12:51)
  07. Everlasting Light                                                 (10:23)

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