Stepping into (or maybe through) Monta At Odds' latest single "When I'm Gone" feels at once like moving through a wormhole and ending up at the underground German punk club SO36 in 1978 and then moving forward to 50 years from now when the divergent purple moon once again rises. Within Monta At Odds' transported sound helmed by Kansas City brothers Dedric (bass, vox) and Delaney Moore (synths, vox) with Alexander Thomas (drums, percussion) and made even more experimentally subversive and vast with the addition of songwriters, guitarists and vocalists Mikal Shapiro and Teri Quinn, you feel pushed through hybrid proto punk tones. It might be the sort of degraded synth sounds, the machine beat aesthetic or Quinn's vocal atmosphere that slides into falsettos that have a patina of both Goth pop and post punk. It is like a lemon tart twist version of Kraftwerk, Cocteau Twins and Siouxsie And The Banshees and how fucking cool is that?
Monta At Odds is a Kansas City combo led by the brothers Dedric and Delaney Moore. The two have played music together all their lives and have been exploring the Monta At Odds sound since the band’s debut in the year 2000. Dedric's pulsing, melodic bass and Delaney's artfully unhinged synthesizers frame the band's central character, which is fleshed out by a talented cast of musicians and collaborators. The result is a heady sonic pool that has been inscrutably referred to as ‘Ummagumma meets Arthur Russell’s mutant disco at Vangelis’s house.’
2020 finds the addition of acclaimed vocalists, guitarists, and songwriters Mikal Shapiro and Teri Quinn to the band’s lineup. With Mikal and Teri's otherworldly vocal contributions, Monta At Odds continues to push their alternate reality into streamlined consciousness. The group released Zen Diagram in May of 2020 as a more post-punk leaning follow-up to Argentum Dreams. Expect minimal rhythms set to maximum noise, shoegazed guitar signals, slo-mo psychedelic darkwave, endless dub echo, and extended-cut warped disco. Live musicians manipulating time and space via knob turning, cymbal cracking, and pedal pushing as they interlock into hypnotic moments of heavenly bliss that seem to hold forever, captivating the mind.
Monta At Odds, darkwave, industrial punk, proto punk tones, indie punk, goth pop, electro pop, Kansas City, "When I'm Gone"
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