MONO REQUIEM FOR HELL

6 56605 32732 7 6 56605 32731 0 CD LP BIO ARTIST: MONO MONO are a band driven by intangible conflicts. Their TITLE: Requiem For Hell albums have found inspiration in the inescapable CATALOG: TRR273 coexistence of love and loss, faith and hopelessness, RELEASE DATE: October 14, 2016 light and darkness. Fittingly, their new album, Requiem FORMAT: CD / 2xLP / Digital For Hell, incorporates all of those conflicts into the one UPC CD: 6566053273287 universal inevitability in life: Birth, and death. UPC LP: 656605327310 BOX LOT: CD: 35 / LP: 18 Requiem For Hell finds MONO returning to longtime TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. After MONO and NORTH AMERICA ONLY (USA, Albini's band, Shellac, toured Japan together last year, CANADA, MEXICO) they realized how much they missed the (often wordless) VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE creative dialogue they shared during the making of many of their most memorable albums – beginning with TRACK LISTING Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky... (2004) and 1. Death In Rebirth (8:05) culminating with Hymn To Immortal Wind (2009). The 2. Stellar (4:59) rebirth of the Albini collaboration for Requiem For Hell 3. Requiem For Hell (17:49) also coincided with the birth of a close friend's first child, 4. Ely’s Heartbeat (8:27) whose actual in utero heartbeat serves as the foundation 5. The Last Scene (6:43) for the aptly named "Ely's Heartbeat." For MONO, it all felt so right, so inevitable. SALES POINTS  The first MONO album recorded by Requiem For Hell is undeniably heavier and scarier than Steve Albini since Hymn To The most of MONO's output to this point – hear the dizzying Immortal Wind (2009) 18-minute title track for example – but it also carries some of their most sublime moments. This dichotomy is  Worldwide tour begins in October how one band’s obsession with conflict has manifested itself into one of underground music's simultaneously  RIYL: EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, quietest and loudest catalogs. MOGWAI, SIGUR RÓS, NEUROSIS Both CD and 2xLP formats feature an awe-striking PRESS custom die-cut jacket with intricate metallic overprints, “One of the most distinctive bands of and full-color inner sleeves. The CD package also the 21st century.” – Pitchfork includes a full-color foldout miniposter.

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