These Monsters
Ambient / Hardcore / Progressive / Psychedelic / Rock

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The Band

ian - bass
johnny - sax
sam - guitar
stu - guitar
tommy - drums

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Though they look like they've come in off the street after a three day bender, complete with questionable fashion accessories (headbands for pity's sake!), These Monsters definitely have it in the riffs. Even the saxophonist seems to wish he was playing guitar. A line of stalwart nodders bang the time with their heads to this heaviest of mesmeric grooves. Think somewhere between We Vs Death and Pelican and you're getting close.
- BBC.co.uk

...they were nicely loud and played facing each other as if in ritual combat. I was hugely impressed...
- Whisperin & Hollerin

Time has frozen as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of jazz-post-rock resonance both comforting and devestating
- The Fly Magazine

One of the most interesting and engaging instrumental acts I’ve heard from the UK in a long f***ing time – no word of a lie.
- Collective-zine

Over and over These Monsters deliver a crashing landscape of deft intensity and unparalleled creativity. As far as debut releases go, few are as stunning or ambitious as These Monsters. I'm hard pressed to align These Monsters with another UK band, because frankly there aren't any other UK artists I've heard doing anything remotely similar. In that aspect, they join the ranks of 65 Days of Static and Blueneck for outright creativity.
- Decoy Music

These Monsters are a band that can hold their heads up high with the likes of Sigur Ros, Mogwai and The Boards of Canada
- UK Music Search

Album of the Week
– Organ Magazine

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is one of the most promising bands in the instrumental arena. If These Monsters can pull together a debut album with anything close to the vision, idea and musicianship as this EP, they will definitely become the U.K's answer to Explosions in the Sky.
- The Silent Ballet

During the middle of the set I take a casual glance around the packed room to notice that not one person is talking, all eyes on the band and all jaws on the floor.
- Leedsmusicscene.net

Finally for the band of the moment, These Monsters, I cannot stress how good they were tonight, you must, infact have to see this band live
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Up next, these monsters are simply amazing. The five-piece make instrumental blunderbusses of songs that would give Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai nightmares. The doom-laden riffs and drummer Tommy's relentless assault on his kit are at once brutal and strangely pretty, whilst the rousing saxophone adds a perverse showtune element to proceedings - a vicious, energetic and loud-enough-to-be-pornographic live show.
- Sandman Magazine

...they look like a bunch of very talented tramps...
- Contact Music




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