Hamish Monk, Author at Atwood Magazine https://atwoodmagazine.com/author/hamish-monk/ For the Love of Music Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:12:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://atwoodmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Atwood-Magazine-Circle-Logo-2020-32x32.png Hamish Monk, Author at Atwood Magazine https://atwoodmagazine.com/author/hamish-monk/ 32 32 68941247 Meet Our Writers: Essex’s Hamish Monk https://atwoodmagazine.com/mw18-meet-our-writers-hamish-monk/ https://atwoodmagazine.com/mw18-meet-our-writers-hamish-monk/#respond Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:00:03 +0000 https://atwoodmagazine.com/?p=202506 Hamish MonkBorn in the municipal birthplace of radio, Chelmsford, Essex, Hamish Monk sees music as the best tool mankind has yet invented to understand itself. To write about music for him is as much an effort to appreciate how this mechanism works, as it is exquisitely entertaining.]]> https://atwoodmagazine.com/mw18-meet-our-writers-hamish-monk/feed/ 0 202506 Review: Pond’s ‘Stung!’ Reveals Nick Albrook as the Psychedelic Rumpelstiltskin, Though He Can Spin Gold From Thin Air https://atwoodmagazine.com/pdsg-pond-stung-album-review/ https://atwoodmagazine.com/pdsg-pond-stung-album-review/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:50:50 +0000 https://atwoodmagazine.com/?p=199156 Stung! - PondPond's 10th album ‘Stung!’ is a squelching doozy – one that establishes frontman Nick Allbrook as a psychedelic Rumpelstiltskin, capable of spinning gold from thin air.]]> https://atwoodmagazine.com/pdsg-pond-stung-album-review/feed/ 0 199156 Review: Amen Dunes’ ‘Death Jokes’ Is a Post-Modern Beachball: Colourful on the Surface and Full of Air Inside https://atwoodmagazine.com/adjk-amen-dunes-death-jokes-album-review-2024/ https://atwoodmagazine.com/adjk-amen-dunes-death-jokes-album-review-2024/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 16:23:15 +0000 https://atwoodmagazine.com/?p=197095 Amen Dunes © Michael SchmellingAmen Dunes’ sixth studio album 'Death Jokes' boasts a grandiose concept, and one to be commended, if the simulacrum were handled with panache.]]> https://atwoodmagazine.com/adjk-amen-dunes-death-jokes-album-review-2024/feed/ 0 197095 “I’ve been watching, catching fire”: Dehd’s Subtle, Restrained & Emotionally Complex “Alien” Gently Teases Fifth Album ‘Poetry’ https://atwoodmagazine.com/dhal-dehd-alien-song-review/ https://atwoodmagazine.com/dhal-dehd-alien-song-review/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 23:00:08 +0000 https://atwoodmagazine.com/?p=196451 Dehd © Atiba JeffersonChicago indie pop band Dehd tease their upcoming fifth album 'Poetry' with "Alien," a subtle, restrained, and emotionally complex song that unveils another shade to the trio's sound pallet.]]> https://atwoodmagazine.com/dhal-dehd-alien-song-review/feed/ 0 196451 “Starburster”: Like an Iron Butterfly, Fontaines D.C. Are Delicate & Indestructible https://atwoodmagazine.com/starburster-fontaines-dc-song-review/ https://atwoodmagazine.com/starburster-fontaines-dc-song-review/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:48:52 +0000 https://atwoodmagazine.com/?p=196139 Fontaines D.C. © Theo CottleMasterfully sitting on the knife edge of the avant-garde and the bold freeway of indie music, Fontaines D.C.'s indestructible and delicate new single "Starburster" offers a fresh, attitude-packed first look at their fourth studio album, 'ROMANCE.']]> https://atwoodmagazine.com/starburster-fontaines-dc-song-review/feed/ 0 196139