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Posted commentary on an advance-issue disc for Monkey Pox Mixes:
Monkeyhouse express- in this debut of their music- those audible qualities of a young generation that have so far removed it from conventional American life as to create a recognized divide.
One word for the awakening spirit of the songs from "Monkey Pox Mixes" might be "internal" --that quality of seeming to come from the deep inside recessses of the mind. And this is the way their music is displayed--in the "hung-up" moments of contemplation as life swings back and forth between hope and frustration.
In contrast, today's more conventional music--the manufactured pop of music television, the contrived sincerity of indie rock, the homogenized culture of punk rock-- these represent that external, superficial and nervous world we live in and walk through almost without sensation; the sound effects of our adult society.
There is value and virtue in both, to be sure. But it is the inside life of the soul that this record is about-- sincerities so deep they can only be whispered. And it is this that the young-- all people for whom it is not already "too late" --are going to take seriously.