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Monica's Last Prayer
12+ albums
shoegazeGothic Rockdarkwavepost-punkenglish
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New EP released Feb 2nd 2013 at - http://monicaslastprayer.bandcamp.com Monica's Last Prayer are a British alternative/gothic/darkwave project. Their sound varies from release to release - ranging from upbeat gothic/post-punk rock to introspective nu-gaze. Paul Broome - Vocals, Guitars, Etc Heather Slater - Piano, Backing Vocals Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/monicaslastprayer Most of the band's back catalogue has been made available for free download from: http://monicaslastprayer.bandcamp.com Also all of the original 90's four-track demos are now available for download from there aswell - under the guise of the Analogue Archives volumes 1 to 4. A potted history... Monica’s Last Prayer began life in the early 1990s, as a side project for Paul Broome (guitarist with Goth band Earth Calling Angela). Several 4-track demo cassettes were recorded and circulated in the mid-90s. In 1996 Mick Mercer called Paul “a modern-day weeping equivalent to Nick Drake” in his book The Hex Files. After working on several other projects in the early years of this century, Paul returned to Monica’s Last Prayer in 2004 – rearranging and re-recording some of the old four-track songs. The result was the album Another Time, released in January 2005 by Humane Music – a catalog of MLP’s history, and a gentle nudge toward the future. The 2005 album, Transparent, was somewhat of a departure from the reverb-soaked reverie of what has gone before, but it also felt like a natural progressio
