Monokle - Tesaurus

01. Bear and Mug
02. Steppe
03. Warm Control
04. Seven
05. Fir
06. Friday
07. Magic Go!
08. Nut Brain
09. Maya
10. Transit

Music can act as something like an emotional anchor. Listening to some old songs will conjure up past experiences, situations and moods and will transport the listener into that state of mind he was in back then. Monokle celebrate exactly this quality of music. Their nuanced and agreeable mix of the most different references from 1970 to today, from Can to Plaid, from New Order to Maniacs of Noise, from prog-rock via new wave and pop to ambient and electronica is about a wee bit more than just piling up quotations. In their own, very original, sometimes minimal, sometimes opulent, but always highly detailed style Monokle play with virtuosity on the keyboard of the listener's memories, triggering long-forgotten images and sensations by the second, teasing out thoughts of afternoons spent with C64 games, of weltschmerz and heartaches, of great plans and little gifts until you can hardly decide whether to go for euphoria or nostalgia. Happily we therefore continue to lie at anchor, pull a sunlounger and decide to stay just a little longer. Who knows when all this will happen to cross our minds once again.