monster movie

i have the ep and it is nothing like slowdive nor even anything like eternal. it is shoegazey in the sense that the guitars are treated heavily with effects but he adopts some sort of indie-rawk nasal whine in his singing that just irritates me. i am thinking neil halstead had all the talent, i have a gift for noticing the obvious, and christian's moping over pygmalion didn't really inspire him to create anything interesting. however, an album is out soon on claire and perhaps he has improved.

bands named for other people's RECORDS are notoriously poor (slowdive = named for someone else's LP track = hmmm, unless anyone here has a god theory about bansheeness in SD aesthetic...)

Well, Slowdive were always very goth, just a slow-impact, derived from the Cure sort. And R. Smith was in the Banshees for a bit, so there you go. ;-)

Well, it's been ages since the question was asked, but....

I have both of the Monster Movie albums, "Last Night Something Happened," and "To the Moon." I love them both. The first album is pretty stripped down and sparse, rhythmically spare with a moody ambiance. Pretty much a downer, but I really enjoy it. "To the Moon" is excellent, with a lot more texture and a beautiful folky, almost hymnal quality peremeating some of the songs- the sound is bigger and a bit more ambitious. Personally I dig the vocals, but they're definitely a bit nasal and high pitched- they grate on some people I know. Anyways, I'd definitely recommend them to anyone stumbling on this topic, and no, Monster Movie shares few similarities with Slowdive.