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Despite the fragile beauty expressed on their latest album, Monades live set is neither unique nor subtle: the guitars are reduced to a fairly predictable Velvet Underground strum and the keyboards loom in that menacing, late sixties manner. What is chic and slight on Monstre Cosmic is blunt and drab in concert: even the French vocals are off-hand and desultory.Monade are rarely out and out boring: the rhythms chug along contentedly and they make a fair stab at being a Stereolab off-shot. They are saved by a six string bass, picking out melodies and emerging from the strumming in articulate...
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