Most bands - particularly a lot of those we tend to hate - move from a sweet, understated sound into one packed and storaged for stadiums. Manchester’s MONEY (formerly Meke Menete) have almost missed those traditional first steps, though one could imagine them choosing a gigantic cathedral over a day out in Wembley.
For many new bands, if not most, it’s difficult to make your mind up over whether they’re truly capable of making that well-rounded album, ready for your collection, or if they’re just bound to grate on you the bigger they get and the more confident they become. MONEY’s sparse, atmospheric mix of growl-like vocals and kaleidoscopic guitars looks like your typecast opinion-splitter, the kind of music likely of gaining both cult status and mass disgust. And yet for the majority of acts, this gives them a huge chance of getting somewhere, in comparison to your indifference-inducing up-starters who neither offend nor exhilarate.
At the very least, the big-thinking video below, comprised of clips of old navy submarines and tanks shooting off bombs, highlights the sheer scope of this band’s sound.
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