I’ll confess now, I have long considered Mono to be pretty much as damn near the top of the Post Rock tree as it’s possible to get. They sit comfortably alongside such luminaries of the genre like Godspeed and Mogwai, and live they are an utterly sublime proposition; seeing their show at The Scala in 2009 was about as close as I’ve ever come to a religious experience.
That said, their last album, ‘Hymn To The Immortal Wind’, fell a little short of my expectations. It wasn’t bad by any means, and maybe I expected too much of it, but somehow it lacked the intensity of its predecessors. So, it was with no little trepidation that I sat down to listen to their latest offering, ‘For My Parents’.
