Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens

The Monochrome Set are another one of those bands that put out about a million records between the late 1970s and early 1990s but somehow still seem to be little more than a footnote in indiepop history. Which seems very unfair, especially now that you have bands like Franz Ferdinand pretty much openly stealing their sound.

They were clever and arty and kind of pretentious, even in their more pop-oriented later years, and sometimes they weren't quite as smart as they thought they were and ended up being just kind of annoying ("Achilles", for one). But when they were good, they were very very good and remarkably innovative as well.

This is one of their earliest singles.

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