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The Monochrome Set

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THE INDEPENDENT SINGLES COLLECTION (2021 repress)
  1. He's Frank
  2. Alphaville
  3. Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
  4. Lester Leaps In
  5. The Monochrome Set
  6. Mr Bizzaro
  7. He's Frank (Slight Return)
  8. Silicon Carne
  9. Fallout
  10. The Mating Game
  11. j.d.h.a.n.e.y.
  12. Cast A Long Shadow
  13. The Bridge
  14. Jet Set Junta
  15. Love Goes Down The Drain
  16. Killing Dave
  17. House Of God (Live)
  18. Sweet Death
  19. Forever Young
  20. Hurting You
  21. Little Noises
  22. I Love Lambeth
  23. Kissy Kissy
  24. All Over
  25. Closing Time

The Monochrome Set

THE INDEPENDENT SINGLES COLLECTION (2021 repress)

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    Released: 5th Nov 2021

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The Monochrome Set’s complete independent singles collection including b-sides and rare tracks.

Collected from their time at Rough Trade, Dindisc and Cherry Red, a superb collection of genre defying “new wave” pop Suave; debonair; sophisticated. Haughty, perhaps, for those who favour the pejorative. Aristocratic in more than one sense, classy in at least as many. The Monochrome Set were effortlessly inventive, literate, poised and immaculate of tuneage, possessed of an internal dialogue as a band that allowed them to surf their own narrative. They were just unlike anything else, in layman’s terms. Their sound harked back to a golden era of British pop songwriters. But there was nothing retrogressive about their endeavours. Instead they wrote songs that recreated the drama and promise of a Pearl & Dean interval theme, veering from lullaby to mambo to harmonic pop, accompanied by lush melodies and irresistibly playful lyrics that embraced morbidity at one extreme, and pitch-perfect satire at another…