Monroe Mustang
Monroe Mustang, the Imaginary Band, Regretfully Declines
JAG078
Released: April 8, 2008
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
