Monte Mai: Eye Sea Double
The Swiss-based Electronic Avant-Pop / Indie-Pop band Monte Mai are Fabio Besomi, Fabio Pinto and Anaïs Schmidt. Deconstructed rhythms, smoky bass riffs, lanky psychedelic nursery rhyme-like vocal lines, analog synths and angelic voices. A retro-manic journey into post-genre lateral Pop and played electronica. Their debut album Eye Sea Double (2023), co-produced by Aris Bassetti (Peter Kernel, Camilla Sparksss) received critical acclaim and brought about comparisons to Metronomy, Marc Bolan, LCD Soundsystem, The Knife, Son Lux and Vanishing Twin.
Monte Mai (which translates from Italian into Mount Never), radiate a psychedelic pop with handpicked colors, a mechanical groove of a formidable efficiency, and an introverted mood. The tracks of this first album demonstrate this by feeding the whole of their respective strengths. Because Monte Mai does not miss diverse and varied assets. The trio can thus count here or there on its incontestable science of the groove (Fever Rays), its sense of the melody generally not embarrassed of the superfluous (Blah, Peaches And Limes), a certain attraction for the melancholy (Sweet Collider, What You Wanna Know, The Other Side of Midnight), its rhythmic richness (Dig), or electronic deviations (The Wake Up, Moody Moon Man). Have no fear to put Eye Sea Double on loop, you won’t get bored.
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