Monument to No One - Monument to No One (SR)
By Marc Perlman • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Featured Story, Sound Reviews |
Monument to No One’s self-titled debut features, at first glance, an interestingly out-of-place thank you: “The Pittsburgh Steelers”. That thank you screamed “Danger – or at least nu-metal – ahead!” After all, other than Kid Rock and other meat-rock of a similar ilk, what musician thanks a sports team? Maybe a baseball team, if you’re Yo La Tengo. But a football team? Seems like a fair warning for an upcoming 311 rip off album, right? Even all those guys and girls in all those hip Canadian rock collectives never thanked the Montreal Canadiens! Yet somehow, Monument to No One avoided driving headfirst into huge jock jam craters in the road and came up with nine surprisingly good first-try tracks.
