Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain

Ever tried to define beauty? Well if I would ever try to define it I would define it with this album. This, sound, is something so melancholic yet so wonderful that I wish it would never end. Sadly it does but the album is very long so I tend to replay it every now and then when I wish to hear sheer genius. I highly recommend this. Amazing mixture of post rock and classical music.

A collaboration between instrumental post-rock band Mono and fellow Tokyo native and modern electronic composer World’s End Girlfriend

In 2006 they released Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain, a five-part sojourn of neoclassical grace and luminescence that defies lazy categorization. As dark as the bottom of the ocean and nearly as otherworldly, “Palmless” finds Mono inhabiting a magical world previously only hinted at in their most orchestral compositions.

Forgoing their tendency to erupt into hellish bursts of speaker-destroying noise, Mono instead exhibits remarkable restraint, stretching song lengths past the 15-minute mark, turning subtle crescendos into earth-shaking events. This record is a miniature panoramic view of the sea on an eerily still day, the current swaying at an impossibly lazy pace, and the sound of a thousand tiny waves crashing all at once.

Tracklist:

01. Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain (1:14:08)

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