Blog: Doklands

The Monsoon Bassoon, do we know them? No, not really. The NME had them pegged as a hot act at one point; always the kiss of death for bands because it limits their potential popularity to a three week window. Listening to Commando , you can definitely hear why the NME got so excited. There was really nothing else quite like this. Nominally it's a sort of post rock sort of thing, but done with a waaay poppier treatment. While I'm not a fan of the lead keyboard school of popular music, they [...]

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