Blog: Dots & Dashes

Wearily arising to the masked masquerade this afternoon provided by the latest electro pop kingpins racking up an exquisite debut record layered with more exhilarating hits than late nights in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, Monarchy offer an idyllic ear filler to displace any lingering wax, dirt and anything else that may have possibly become lodged in the gaping gate to the auditory canal after three days of grubbiness. Opening with the operatic (and just a tad less ostentatious than Hurts) Black, The Colour Of My Heart, the mysterious duo, aided by the most mechanical of rhythm sections turn gurns [...]