Breath in dust
Cough then spit it out
Cut them down to size
And then you swallow
Monochromatic Visions return with Change Who You Are, a four-track EP that dives headlong into collapse, confusion, and the crooked thrill of reinvention. Based in London, the alt-rock outfit threads post-punk’s jagged edges through gauzy shoegaze mist, building songs that shimmer and seethe in equal measure.
Each track on Change Who You Are peels back the skin of identity, revealing something unstable beneath: part fever, part fiction. Guitars churn like weather systems, drums pound with claustrophobic insistence, while vocals slip between breath and howl. Nothing here holds still. Change Who You Are crashes through with feedback fizz and vertigo-laced hooks, then disappears into delay-drenched breakdowns that feel like falling through stained glass. It crackles with risk, built for dim rooms and loose ends. For fans of My Bloody Valentine pressed against Primal Scream, it’s a welcome fracture: beautiful, brittle, and burning at the edges.
There’s something slow-burning and bitter beneath these songs, like a heat haze rising off pavement after a summer storm. I Told You opens the door with a smirk and a lie with its soft and bouncy pop melody. Pain, half-promised to pass, lingers and loops back around, slinking in through shared sorrow. Vocals drawl like late-night confessions, conversational and curled with cool disillusionment. Somewhere between Ride, The Dandy Warhols, and Pulp, it coasts on woozy 90s shoegaze synth-pop haze, with a chorus that cracks into a weary call-and-response, like two ghosts talking past each other.
Switchblades is a track that cuts deep. Arrogance wavers, and pride suffers bruises while the guitars gnash like broken teeth. Envision the propulsive rhythms of Suicide entwined with the hazy dreaminess of Creation Records artists at their most enchanting. Each descent resounds louder than the last, with no promise of redemption—only a relentless reckoning that is raw, gritty, and intoxicatingly chaotic.
Every Choice You Make Is Wrong unfolds with lush, melodic post-punk bass riffs that seamlessly transition into the ethereal soundscape of ‘90s alt-rock. This dreamy sojourn leads to a hauntingly beautiful guitar melody, accompanied by vocals that softly weave through the remnants of turmoil. Saturated in regret, the track ambles slowly toward clarity, navigating through a haze of fragmented thoughts and oppressive atmosphere. The voice, earnest and unadorned, reaches out for a release that perpetually eludes grasp.
Then Not Your Kind unfolds, entrancing us with its rhythmic drumbeats and tender vocals that float like whispers through a dream. Woven with threads of obsession and reflected envy, the boundaries between self and other dissolve under a deluge of shoegaze guitars, creating an immersive storm of sound that feels both intense and disintegrative. It’s a feverish journey through fractured emotions, where desire grapples with disbelief. What begins as admiration slowly morphs into an aching desire for escape—an exquisitely beautiful unraveling.”
Listen to Change Who You Are below and order the album here.
Change Who You Are, which follows the band’s previous EP The World Went Wrong, was recorded between Hackney Road Studios and Press Play Studio, and produced by James Aparicio. The EP marks a bold evolution in the band’s sound, increasing the vulnerablity yet keeping their unrelenting energy.
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