Endcyclopedia by Monoscopes

After the debut Painkillers and Wine, which obtained rave reviews by both the Anglo-Saxon press (4 stars on Mojo, interview in Shindig! Magazine), and the Italian press (excellent reviews on Rockit.it, Buscadero, Rumore, Blow Up), Monoscopes return with an album that shows their exposed nerves, just like the cover illustration.

Endcyclopedia opens like an epic poem, with an invocation to The Electric Muse (I wanna know why), which questions the very meaning of composing music and songs, and ends with a character who, like Orlando from Ludovico Ariosto’s famous poem, loses his wits on the moon (A Quiet Life). In between, a roundup of stories of ordinary madness, a sampling of emotions and events, a merciless investigation into human nature.

A sequence of tracks that touch on complex themes such as the unbearability of pain (Today Today), the helplessness one feels when faced with a god who sends a flood to destroy the world (The Maker), the feeling of regretting the past (The Green Bed), love as an obsession (You're Gonna Be Mine). In between there are also glimpses of optimism, such as Hey Atlas, which invites the listener (or the singer?) not to carry all the weight of the world on our shoulders like the titular character, or the jazzy This Silly Night, in which a relationship becomes the only way to escape the ugliness of the outside world.

The album moves from the psychedelic rock with pop overtones of The Electric Muse to the noise ride of You're Gonna Be Mine, from the nocturnal atmospheres of A Quiet Life to the Velvet Underground-influenced garage pop of It's A Shame About You. In between there are noise, melody, harmonic and rhythmic experimentation (above all the alternating odd and even times in The Green Bed), and a resurgence of the middle eight, so dear to The Beatles, as an important element of the song form. In Endcyclopedia one hears echoes of the noisy spirituals of Spiritualized, of the more apocalyptic side of PJ Harvey, of the power pop of Big Star, but also of R.E.M. and the melodic quest of the unforgettable LA's.

In addition to the members of Monoscopes, the album features guests Tommaso Cerasuolo of Perturbazione, who lends his voice and pop sensibility to The Things That You Want To Hide, and former Jennifer Gentle Francesco Candura, who shared an entire American tour with Paolo Mioni, who plays bass on Today Today.

** All purchases (digital and phsycal) include download of two digital single b-sides On the Line and The Evil That Men Do **

We got lost in noise and melody a long time ago, and we have been trying to come back to reality ever since.

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Ci siamo persi nel rumore e nella melodia molto tempo fa. Da allora stiamo cercando di tornare alla realtà.

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