Rare Monk is a Portland, OR based indie rock band that recently released their debut 10-track full-length album, A Future.
One of the album’s standout tracks is titled “Golden.” The song features big guitars and uplifting vocals. It’s a tonally precise and naturally melodic indie rock tune that sounds something like a Death Cab For Cutie B-side.
According to the band, the album’s songs deal with death, agency and our control (both individual and as a species) of how the future will play out. “It’s easy to be deterministic – the world’s a shit show right now and it feels like all we can do is make popcorn – so there’s a lot of grappling and grasping for free will,” they noted. If there’s a unifying theme to the album, it’s that the band has control over the music they make; their band practice is chaos under our control and feedback cures all diseases.
Stream the song “Golden” for yourself below.
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