Since the wait for new songs by Cut City has been so long, I hardly
dared to expect something like this. Sure, I’ve seen the band live more
than a bunch of times since the last record, and I knew that they’ve
grown a lot more fierce and confident, but I haven’t really caught this
more subtle, ambient side of the band.

When I listen to Narcissus Can Wait I’m quite impressed that they’ve
developed the familiar territories of the band's past, and at the same
time managed to take more than a few steps into the more spacious and
sparse. Yes, there’s still some fine and harsh post punk from the mid to
late 2000’s version present in a way, Liars have certainly made a dent
this time around, as well as some old school hardcore appreciation. Some
hints have been taken from more stretched out post rocking acts with a
knack for dynamic song structure as well I’d say, but there’s so much more.

The songs are weaved together neatly, it’s fluent like the songs can’t
be played in any other order, and this epic EP gives us both stretches
of laid back melancholy and exploding cascades of sweet ear wrecking
roughness. Sure, there are references to be made if one decides to, but
Narcissus Can Wait consists of sounds and songs that are made from
people with a love for music, not specific bands.

- Mikael Nordlander, Deleted Art

CUT CITY @ MYSPACE
CUT CITY HOMEPAGE

TRISTAN TZARA "1st cd" 12INCH



Screamo is not the most complicated music to make if you dont want to go all technical, but you need at least a background/history or a feeling for it. Tristan Tzara is the proof of this. They were ("were" because the band split up 2002) one of the best screamo/emo violence bands that I ever heard. It is even quit possible that these Germans created my all-time favourite emo violence band, no matter what great bands they started after the demise of Tristan Tzara. Their self titled and self released CD that is now sold out is a goozebumpfest from start to finish. Intricate little riffs between very melodic repetitions of great parts that get stuck in your mind forever. One of the coolest things about this emo violence is that there is a certain desperate urge, a rapid drive that makes you totally freak out. Tristan Tzara made the most beautiful angry music ever. This one-sided 12" is silkscreened with some art of Man Ray and it looks beautiful. Limited to 300.

"...rocking like Fingerprint. Pretty hectic, in a mid-90's
screamo sort of way. Spoken word over meandering basslines leading into high
pitched, frenzied rockout sessions. Sort of Mohinderish, as well." [Heartattack No.32]

Tracklisting:
01 Anatomies
02 Seaside Suicide
03 Song 7
04 Untitled
05 No Poem
06 I've Seen It All
07 Schwüle Über Europa
08 Danse Macabre

LINKS
TRISTAN TZARA
MONOTONSTUDIO ONLINESTORE

MEDUSA "en raga sül" CD



Consisting of 3/4ths of the creative nucleus of the juggernaut Racebannon, Medusa bludgeon the listener with a riff-centric cyclone that sounds like Slayer playing Melvins covers through the MC5’s equipment. You’ve never heard anything quite like it, and when En Raga Sül is over, you will be left beaten, torn, and begging for more oxygen, and one more listen. En Raga Sül is their only recording to date, and living proof that the way of the tortoise is often times the correct one for those who walk the left hand path. Instead of releasing some watered-down “BS” in the name of record sales and hype, Medusa honed and crafted a maelstrom of tar-stained riffs, thunderous drumming, and vocal incantations with more drama, tension, and hatred than an average Destiny’s Child practice. Sludgey riffs knuckle-drag themselves out of the dankest of swamps, only to careen into fast distorted oblivion at the drop of a hat, with the listener losing 5d20 with each successive passage.

"Scuzzier and heavier than Racebannon, the beloved noise-metal band that 3/5 of Medusa calls home, these guys assault Melvins-style doom with a nasty punk rock cockslap." [Prefixmag]

"Medusa combines the noise rock asthetic that could only come from 3/4 of Racebannon (or possibly Jesus Lizard), along with an angry pre-Big Business-era Melvins thunder." [Brooklyn Vegan]

CUT CITY / CAT PARTY 7"
LIMITED TO 500, BLACK VINYL

 

7" is € 4.00
ask for wholesale prices
e-mail: MONOTONSTUDIO@GMX.DE

Band Info:

CUT CITY formed in 2002 around the local Deleted Art label, sort of the swedish counter-part to U.S. art-punk imprints like Three One G and Tapes Records. In May 2005 they issued a 4-song EP on the california-based Gold Standard Labs label, home to such acts as THE LOCUST, YEAR FUTURE, GOGOGO AIRHEART and many more. Drawing comparisons to groups such as ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN and JOY DIVISION as well as newer bands like MOVING UNITS and FRANZ FERDINAND they at the same time echo the past as much as the future. In February 2007, CUT CITY released their debut full-length, EXIT DECADES, through Gold Standard Labs.

Oskar Andersson - bass
David Hagberg - drums
Max J Hansson - vox/gtr
Magnus Borg - gtr/backing vox

Discography:

Split w/ Cat Party 7"
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Label: Monotonstudio Records

Exit Decades CD & LP
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Label: Gold Standard Laboratories (CD), Deleted Art, Some Industries (VINYL)
Recorded by Kristian Anttila, September 2005 - February 2006.
Produced by Cut City with Kristian Anttila.
Vinyl version issued on Deleted Art and Some Industries.
Features slightly different artwork.

s/t CDEP
Release Date: May 9, 2005
Label: Gold Standard Laboratories
Recorded and produced by Cut City with Kristian Anttila, 2004.

Statues/The Postcard 7"
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Label: Gold Standard Laboratories
Recorded and produced by Cut City with Kristian Anttila, 2004.
Released as the first installment in GSL's series of twelve seven-inches in 2005.



LINKS
CUT CITY HOMEPAGE
CUT CITY @ MYSPACE
CAT PARTY @ MYSPACE

BERLIN VS BROOKLYN 10"
- 500 LIMITED, BLACK VINYL -
SOLD OUT!!!

10" is € 7.00
ask for wholesale prices
e-mail: MONOTONSTUDIO@GMX.DE

Berlin vs Brooklyn is a battle between two guys from Bordeaux armed only with a guitar, a drum set and a keyboard. One rule: make instumental noise rock. Outcome: you get your ass whipped!! 2 Songs ~ 20 MINUTES...Somewhere between Atombombpocketknife and Shellac.

Tracklist

1. An epic and galactic adventure
2. Hey Harry!!! Treble is my Benzedrine

LINKS
BERLINVSBROOKLYN myspace
MONOTONSTUDIO RECORDS ONLINESTORE

SHOCK CINEMA "OUR WAY IS REVENGE" CDEP
- 1000 LIMITED -

CD is € 6.00
ask for wholesale prices
e-mail: MONOTONSTUDIO@GMX.DE

While on tour with Celebration, Miyuki Furtado of the Rogers Sisters met some of Katrina Ford's Atlanta-based friends. Finding like-minded musicians in British born vocalist Destiny Ming Wan Montague and guitarist / melodica player Autry Rene Fulbright, he offered to play drums for them if they ever made it to New York.
Shortly thereafter, not without a little encouragement from TV on the Radio's David Sitek, Fulbright and Montague relocated to Brooklyn. With a co-conspirator in Miyuki, the way was paved for Shock Cinema. And that way is revenge.
For the rest of 2007, Shock Cinema will focus on touring and recording tracks for their next effort at Sitek's Stay Gold Studio with Chris Coady (Blonde Redhead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gang Gang Dance). Members of ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and Dragons of Zynth are adding additional instrumentation. Currently, Danny Wood (Trail of Dead) is filling out the line up playing bass guitar.

tracklisting:
1 breathe now
2 breathe again
3 death in texas
4 howling door
5 art of noir
6 vitamin c (original by CAN)
7 death in texas (thunderbirds are now remix)



LINKS
SHOCK CINEMA
MONOTONSTUDIO ONLINESTORE