Search - Monster Movie :: Last Night Something Happened

The debut album from Monster Movie has hatched and is ready to walk around a bit. Written, performed & produced by Christian Savill & Sean Hewson, it is a landmark follow-up to their self-titled debut EP from 2001. The album, recorded between March and August 2001 at The White House studio in Weston-Super-Mare with Martin Nichols engineering (also the birthplace of their debut EP as well as Slowdive?s ?Souvlaki?), shows a move away from the layered guitars and strong vocals of the EP to a more somber, subdued & warm sound. Here the vocals are more often layered with Martin Wheeler & Louise Hewson, adding their vocals to those of the band, to create a ghostly, disembodied effect. The instrumentation is more varied here as well, with cheap keyboards and acoustic guitars mixing with radios, feedback & broken effects pedals to create a warm hum. As with the EP, the songwriting is still a strong point but Monster Movie have moved forwards, investigating instrumental so! ngs (witness the cinematic ?Star City?) and structure (a la the Faust-like sudden change in ?Winter Is Coming?). Everything on here has a great tune even when it is layers of noise, but the most obvious pop songs are ?Waiting?, ?Shortwave?, ?Take Me Away?, ?4th & Pine? & ?Home? with ?Sleeping On A Train? providing a change of pace & some rock action. Monster Movie are known to be collectively fond of Grandaddy, Air, Yo La Tengo & the Super Furry Animals. They are also more likely to be influenced by their intense and occasionally psychotic dislike of most other rock music. Their individual tastes are not considered ?sexy? enough to be listed.