MONO
Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Conspiracy
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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 MONO’s
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 facemelting
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 conductor’s 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
MONO’s strongest virtue.
