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While saturating myself in the ecstatic melancholia of "Light In An Empty Room" by Monad, the dream pop project of Tel-Aviv based artist & producer Eshchar Nachmany, I flashed on a diverse trio of artists, namely Todd Rundgren (circa 1972), MGMT (circa 2007), The Flaming Lips (2002). I am crushing on the barrage of synths that hold distortion but grace at the same time. I think I flashed on Rundgren first because his pop sense was for the lovelorn but he seemed like he was from another planet and Nachmany incorporates a classic pop sense while injecting avant pop and space rock atmospheres as well. The in your face bass and drums, overall post punk punch and lovely synth keys during the verses are so magnetic. A complex blend of psych guitars and too many nuanced production touchstones to mention. MY BIG criticism, and I only have one, is that the song feels way to short, just a dip in a hallucinogenic pool.
Of the track, Nachmany shares:
“‘Light in an Empty Room’ was born out of a writing exercise I was trying at the time, writing a song inspired by a visual piece - I stumbled upon Hopper’s “‘un in an Empty Room’ and something in it immediately deeply resonated with me, there’s an introspective quality to it; that painting is a direct influence for this song, which like the painting deals with feelings of otherness and isolation (on the inside and on the outside) in it’s own way.”
Lovely stuff. "Light In An Empty Room" feels like a waking dream state, a walk on another planet and the realization that it is our planet, that everything is someone's other and someone's own. An artful piece of existential thought.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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After cementing himself with a wealth of rich and soaring offerings these last few years, including his mesmerising 2020 EP ‘Dissolution’, psychedelic dream-pop artist Monad returns for the new year to deliver his beautifully alluring new single ‘Light In An Empty Room’.
Conjuring another heady dose of spellbinding aesthetics and breezy atmospheres throughout, ‘Light In An Empty Room’ sees the artist pursue more of those tantalising ideals he has been cultivating since he first emerged. Heavily inspired by the Edward Hopper painting ‘Sun In An Empty Room’, this new release captures a rich tapestry of sweeping elegance and progressive ideals, synonymous with the Monad sound of late.
Monad is the dream-pop project of Tel-Aviv based artist & producer Eshchar Nachmany, blending palpitating electronics, otherworldly echoes and shoegazey guitars into his own brand of multicoloured psychedelia.
Monad began its musical journey in an isolated house in the countryside, with Esh building his own studio from scratch; remodelling and modifying broken tape machines and synthesisers to construct layers of dreamy soundscapes. From that insular space Monad has released 2 EP’s so far, 2018’s s/t and 2020’s ‘Dissolution’.
Monad's music has garnered support online from the likes of The Guardian, Line of Best Fit, EARMILK, okayplayer, CLASH and many others for his lush and complex musical landscapes, with radio support not only from local radio, but also from prominent indie taste-makers across the globe such as KEXP, KCRW, and NTS to name a few.
Last spring Monad embarked on his first UK tour which included a Liverpool Sound City performance amongst different dates across the UK, and is expected to return this spring for another visit which’ll include a visit to this year’s Dot to Dot Festival, with a visit to Canada’s NXNE and other EU dates planned for the rest of the year.
2023 sees Monad further explore and shape his own lysergic & retro-futuristic sound and aesthetic, dragging the past into the future; Evoking the sounds of 60’s jangle pop, 90’s shoegaze and 00’s electronica, melted together into a fuzzed-out, melodic pop statement.
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