The New Monarchs: Electrocaching
Sean Hogan and Taylor Nelson of The New Monarchs digitally released a new album called Electrocaching on March 2nd, while the CD will be released March 23rd. As the album name might indicate, The New Monarchs have an interesting experimental electronic sound that doesn’t abandon the importance of vocal melodies.
Electrocaching was released on March 2nd on Soup Bowl Records, a Minneapolis imprint. During the recording and post-recording process The New Monarchs recorded the album with Jeff Marcovis (Me & My Arrow), and Brian Moen of Peter Wolf Crier, “crafted the visual accompaniments.”
Sean Hogan repeats in both songs Tangent and Electrocaching, “I am searching for a message in the electric sounds that are running through my head.” The sounds and lyrics feed off each other as Sean sings, “these sounds keep me moving `round,” suggesting a theme that Electrocaching taps the aural imagery in Hogan’s psyche.
Listen: The New Monarchs – Tangent
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