From Monument To Masses – An Ounce of Prevention

Another Post-rock band in the mould of Explosions In The Sky and This Will Destroy You (they sound a little more like the latter than the former) comes From Monument To Masses. You can tell they are post-rock because they have a 4 word band name. Is it just me or is every post-rock band in the world have a 4 word name? (Do Make Say Think, Set Fire To Flames, Godspeed You Black Emperor some more examples…)

So do these guys breath new life into a genre rapidly going stale?

Maybe. They use movie samples and synths, though they are by no means the first to use them, yet they do so in a way that is quite fresh. They also incorporate some twisting-guitar sounds that are reminiscent of overhyped and overrated band Battles.

Like many far-left political bands they sometimes annoy, though the fact they don’t use vocals lessens the irritation, the message comes through in their choice of samples. For instance in this track, An Ounce of Prevention, Mario Savio’s famous Free Speech Movement speech is sampled:

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop

From Monument To Masses

These guys won’t change the world, or even Post-rock but they play with energy, and even wit and they are the first band to come along that has actually made me care about post-rock since Explosions.

An Ounce of Prevention [17610 KB]