twelve-string guitar and a fierce handle on melody

but in an age where so many bands are masking songs with muddied production and studio trickery

for which the Berlin quintet plus one has created its own genre in 2024: apm – alien pop music

In addition to painting and sculptural works

and to Jesse

OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Postrock twelve-string guitar and a fierceSongs for Nothing was written upon Olan Monks return to the west coast of Ireland. The album is imbued with the influence of sean ns singing, Irish language songs in the old style that often proclaim tales of love, loss and landscape; and also heavily indebted to the late Sinad OConnors confessional songwriting. Reconstructing these influences through their unique perspective has resulted in a fragmentary album veering between collaged pop, machinic