Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall – Monstrance [2LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock with Massolin’s electric bass pushing

with Massolin’s electric bass pushing the whole thing into full-on shoegaze mode

"Brand new recordings by the electronic duo together with the great AACM trumpeter

one far from generic constraint

the latter most strikingly when cole and Rushford are joined by Callum G'Froerer on trumpet and Joe O'Connor on trombone for a series of dream-like moments moving from growling overtones to poignant lyricism

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Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall – Monstrance [2LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock with Massolin’s electric bass pushing"Monstrance documents Mika Vainio and Joachim Nordwall reshaping guitars, drums, and incendiary electronics at Einstrzende Neubauten's Berlin studio back in 2010. The results were originally issued by Touch in 2013 with this new double LP edition arriving on Nordwall's iDEAL Recordings label five years later as a posthumous tribute and reminder of his erstwhile collaborator. It's one of Vainio's most crucial and absorbing collaborations; moving away