Back in March we wrote about ‘Government Employee‘, a single from Monde UFO‘s forthcoming album Vandalized Statue To Be Replaced With Shrine on Quindi Records. After first single ‘Visions of Fatima’ “led the listener into a decidedly downbeat mystery, channelling the miracle of its title to speak of shifting wonders and cloaked truths,” ‘Government Employee’ highlighted a new side to the album. “One where the laidback rhythms evoke an alternate version of visitation,” as we put it, “the lyrics playing with an almost Pynchon-esque restlessness beneath the languorous surface.”
The two songs showed the invention of the Monde UFO sound, what the label describe as a blend “dream pop vignettes and outer rim punk exotica” which draws on everything from dub and bossa nova to contemporary indie rock. But they also displayed how such diverse styles are tied together by something less tangible. Call it spirit, call it vibe. A willingness to confront mysteries wherever they might appear on this earth, and even turn an eye towards the cosmos too.
Latest single ‘Garden of Agony’ continues this mood. A more subdued, intimate track which takes the dreaminess of previous singles and condenses it into something intimate. A mystery this time unfurling not from some Martian apparition or exotic conspiracy but rather the languid unspooling of a daydream in an empty room.
