Monuments Third Album is out now!

This album went really under the radar for me, at like 12:30 I saw on my spotify front page and saw this album cover with monuments under it and was like wtf is this, clicked it, googled it and was like holy shit I guess the new monuments came out today. Wasn't in my Periphery at all.

Now I'm a pretty big fan of monuments to pre gnosis (bring back the 2 singers and release that version of gnosis), was pretty disappointed in the new singles, I listened to the first 7 tracks and was nauseously underwhelmed, questioning wtf happened to monuments. I took a break came back and really dug the last 3 tracks, then clicked through some of the other tracks again and am getting into it now, so I guess I just gotta digest it more. It seems like chris is taking a different approach to this album with his vocals, or something, something definitely sounds different than the monuments I know but I can't put my finger on it. Listening to it now, it's definitely exceeded my expectations from what I thought of the singles, but the first 2 albums really grabbed and sustained my attention where I wanted to keep coming back to it and listen to it again and again where I don't have that initial feeling for this one, I'm still digging it, but just not with that same passion I had for the first 2.

Now one thing that for sure takes me out of the listening experience is some of Chris' lyrics. I tried to look past the Mirror Image lyrics, I was all well I still like it anyways. However, I can't not wonder wtf Chris was thinking on these Stygian Blue lyrics. All the comments I saw everyone was looking forward to this song on the album the most, I saw the live video like a year ago and was hyped as well. Then I'm listening to it and am just like wtf is happening. It's like ok, this is Monuments, they created these 2 epic albums, this is an established great band to me, you simply cannot have the basic lyrics of 'fuck around with me constantly, honestly, leave me the fuck alone' inside of a Monuments songs and me be ok with that. Hearing that was the final straw where now I'm joining in and being one of the internet haters on his lyrics lol

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