Shortly before their absolutely phenomenal performance at London’s The Borderline, we were lucky enough to speak to the rhythmic souls of Monuments. The chatty Mike Malyan and Olly Steele spoke of all things Monuments, what we might be seeing from them in the future, potential new albums and what exactly is going to become of The Amanuensis story book… And that’s the trizzuth.
I feel like the overall sound overall sound of Monuments has really kind of tightened up with this new release was that something that you actively wanted to do?
Olly : See that’s funny to me, because to me The Amanuensis sounds more raw and organic and live than Gnosis.
Mike : I think that we game far less of a gridded and technical creature since, as a result it has been perceived as tighter and griddier..
Olly : It’s more of an organic thing , it’s not like we’re trying to reach out of what we sound like.
Mike : We allowed so,e space to move around for sure, especially for the drums I allowed a lot of space to be reinterpreted and not be so physically, anal is the word I like to use but over the top to try in terms of like trying to be too perfect, but letting go of that a little bit has made it has made it almost come back the other way.
Do you think that this has made it slightly more Progressive?
Mike : Well we never heard what we wanted to do done before, so we did it pretty much. We just wanted to do that, we all had our reasons for doing things a certain way and that’s what’s made it what it is.
Olly : It depends who is listening because to me a song like Regenrate from Gnosis to a song like Atlas which to me has a very poppy structure. It depends what progressive is to the listener, for me it’s just a giant step up, there’s a lot more energy hand it sounds a lot more like who we are as people.
Consider Gnosis to be part of the project based Monuments from multiple different singers and seen through multiple different arrays of musicians coming through. The works as The Amanuensis, when Chris walked in and we made an album as a group of people. Completely different works, Gnosis was made over Six years.
Really?
Mike : Yeah it started being written as soon as Fellsilent split up and it fished being done a long time before it was released. For many different reasons, they’re just two completely different style of album. Consider Gnosis to have all of the elements from inception to finish of the transition from Fellsilent to Monuments.
Olly : And that’s the trizzuth!
This is just an excerpt of our chat with Mike and Olly from Monuments, you can listen to the rest of the interview along with many others on our Soundcloud page. And that’s the trizzuth!
Monuments’ brand new album The Amanuensis is out now via Century Media and they will be playing Tech-Fest this year!
