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Black Monk Time

Monks

Black Monk Time

Remastered reissue of the 1966 debut by the pioneering garage rock mavericks

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8.4

Label
Repertoire
UK Release date
20/04/2009
  1. 10.0 |   Uncut

    Punk before they called it that. Weird.Loud. Thrilling.
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  2. 9.2 |   Pitchfork

    Their one album was revolutionary, but sparked no revolution, due to circumstances beyond the band's control.
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  3. 9.0 |   NME

    It’s rock’n’roll at its rawest: tribal rhythms, feedback, drones and nihilistic lyrics... as incredible and incendiary as music can get.
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  4. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    As unique a document of musical instinct and irreverence in collision, carried by total, insular commitment to the project, as you're ever likely to find. Or even dream up.
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  5. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Positively bristling with demented beat-group nihilism, furious yodelling, and slurries of guitar noise and pendulous percussion.
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  6. 8.0 |   The Times

    Forty-four years on, I Hate You and Blast Off! have lost not a molecule of their convulsively venal nihilism.
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  7. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    A real gem... anarchic garage protest songs. Influential and beloved of Jack White, Mark E Smith and Iggy Pop.
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  8. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Made up of GIs in Germany, the Monks were the musical equivalent of Art Brut, neo-primitivists who discovered the primal Velvet Underground beat years before the Velvets... some of the finest fuzz-guitar sounds ever heard on disc.
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