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The Austin-and-San
Francisco-based band Monahans began in the Spring
of 2006 as a new project by Milton Mapes collaborators
Greg Vanderpool, Roberto Sanchez, Jim Fredley
and Britton Beisenherz. As Monahans, the group
expanded on their landscape rock-and-roll with
an intense, rhythmic, yet decisively apolitical
pulse. The band's first release, Low
Pining (Undertow 2007), was born
out of mostly nameless instrumental soundtracks
(Explosions In The Sky meets Califone) and later
weaved with lyrical strands of detachment and
Cold War Era urgency in the spirit of early U2,
R.E.M., The Police and everyone's hero, Neil Young.
With the consistent support of regional radio
airplay, the record gradually found its way to
various year-end favorites lists. Magnet Magazine
listed Low Pining as one of its "10
Hidden Treasures of 2007" and Harp Magazine
called it an "under-the-radar gem".
The album also features multi-instrumentalist Chris
Dye, Todd Pertll on pedal steel, and Margo Timmins
of Cowboy Junkies as harmony vocalist on “When
You’re Down”.
Monahans is scheduled to release a new album in May 2009 |
