Artist: Monaco: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Monaco Year: 2000 Tracks: 10 When New Order went on foramen after 1993's Republic, bassist Peter Hook took the group's intelligent and feeling with him. After his previous side project Revenge was shredded by critics and snubbed by disk buyers, Hook returned to the New Order pattern -- one he helped pattern -- when he collaborated with David Potts (guitar, vocals) as Monaco in 1996. Potts was earlier leased by Hook to be the tape operator of his studio apartment apartment in 1989; blessed Trinity years after, Hook asked him to lend riffs to Revenge's Gun World Porn EP. Playing his freshwater bass with the brooding saturation that characterized his exploit with Joy Division and New Order, Hook no longer distanced himself from his past tense on Monaco's 1997 debut album Music for Pleasure. The critically acclaimed LP unabashedly resembled a New Order record. Hook's distinctive pulsating bass lines united New Order's marriage of post-punk and pop, creating an identity element so placeable that Monaco's first exclusive, "What Do You Want From Me?," was oft mistaken for a New Order track. Even Potts' interpreter recalled the chilly withdrawal of New Order frontman Bernard Sumner. "What Do You Want From Me?" was a minor hit on alternative stations of the Cross and Music for Pleasure sold more than than D,000 copies. Since New Order's future remained unsealed, Monaco filled the dance-rock empty created by the pioneering band's absence. Although Music for Pleasure didn't revolutionise music, its songs were catchier and more moving than many had predicted, and the album's winner had the press speculating if Monaco was going to be a permanent radical. However, despite Music for Pleasure's surprising popularity, Monaco were dropped by Polydor Records because the band wasn't commercial enough. The label spurned the group's self-titled followup, and it was distributed by Papillon instead in 2000. After Monaco split up in the recent '90s, Hook reunited with New Order, releasing Get Ready in 2001. |