Amsterdam trio I Saw Les Monte has released a quite compelling first album, “Machine & Men,” here's an inviting piece off of it.
The track “Garden In The City Of Lies” belongs to almost space rock revival, with a sprinkle of post-punk and Bristol sound. The instrumental embodies a measured, enveloping, swirling substance with a flickering sound of drums. But after the first minute, there’s a place even for vocals in the in the vein of ‘80s pop and new wave, a la Alphaville and Ultravox. It sounds very unexpected and unusual, radically changes the mood of “Garden In The City Of Lies,” giving it an airy, unearthly ease and phlegmatic inscrutability. Going deeper into the song, you feel even more that I Saw Les Monte seems to have used a certain box for something completely different, reaching at first an unobvious, but tenacious distinctiveness.
