Steve Schmitt — The Monarch Review

Monarch Music for Brooders and Believers

Sunday, April 3, 2011 13:07 — 0 Comments

Gout is a new cut from Ruminator, a side-project of Diminished Men‘s guitarist Steve Schmitt. Brooding and pensive, this song embodies exactly the project’s name. Spekulation is making his second appearance in Monarch Music, this time with a remix of Michele Khazak. Quite What It Is also ruminates. Khazak’s lyrics lilt and sway, involuting and coiling against a sea of sonic melancholy. One-eyed Dog is, more or less, a field recording. Louis Loomis, as the group calls itself, explores an eery musical landscape with distorted violin and anxious drums, the bass looming and dark. Errant keyboard tones arrive and depart like […]