Releases

(JAG078 released: 2008-04-08 )

Monroe Mustang
Monroe Mustang, The Imaginary Band, Regretfully Declines

After Countless Fortnights of Recording at a Glacial PaceSongs as Timeless Today as They Were in the Century Past Alchemical Sounds Drawn Out by Force of WillPlain Sweeping Themes for the Unprepared ... Monroe Mustang, The Imaginary Band, Regretfully DeclinesFrom Norman, Oklahoma, via Austin, Texas, Monroe Mustang takes a long time to do anything. Their new album, Monroe Mustang, The Imaginary Band, Regretfully Declines, is the product of home recording sessions spanning more than a decade. The material, recorded onto sticky tape and rust, then converted into ones and zeroes, has been reworked, lost, found, and duct-taped back together to intoxicating effect. The layers of grit and grime add a hazy dreamlike quality to timeless songs with the strange familiarity of a lost recording from a band that time forgot.All five members, Brian Barry, Taylor Holland, Christopher Linnen, Michael Linnen, and Jason Stout, share singing and songwriting duties while rotating instruments -- both onstage and in their home studio. It's been said that if you were to gun down two or three members of the band ʇ