Call it synth-punk, electro-punk, post-punk, punk/new wave, or whatever you like. Just know that MONONEGATIVES do it better than almost any band out there. - faster and louder
Crossing Visual Field is here!!
Check out some of press for the album that is already on several Best of 2023 lists!!
Having already proclaimed MONONEGATIVES the very best of the newest wave of post-punk/synth-punk, I did not imagine this London (Ontario)–based outfit had left itself room to make a second album twice as good as its first. - faster and louder
Crossing Visual Field is dense with creativity and as such demands repeated listens to unlock its true quality. - Add To Want List
…unleashed a set of songs that are the sound of raw dystopia. - Queen City Sounds and Art
Cassette lovers rejoice! Limited run of professionally manufactured and shrink wrapped cassette release of the new Mononegatives LP Crossing Visual Field.
Includes fold out lyric sheet.
Track listing :
Neutral Solution
Faculty
Disappearing Architecture
North Carolina Atomic Bomb
Implicit Obedience
Cro-Magnon
Second Self
Bel-Pre
Outcome Unknown
Replaceable Anatomy
Television Funeral
Testing Capability
Living in the Future
Deficit
Not much beats the high-fidelity of compact disc!
Limited run of professionally glass pressed and shrink wrapped CD release of the new Mononegatives LP Crossing Visual Field.
Canadian friends - order from the Mononegatives bandcamp page for cheaper shipping!
Track listing :
Neutral Solution
Faculty
Disappearing Architecture
North Carolina Atomic Bomb
Implicit Obedience
Cro-Magnon
Second Self
Bel-Pre
Outcome Unknown
Replaceable Anatomy
Television Funeral
Testing Capability
Living in the Future
Deficit
Television Funeral - the third and final single from the upcoming Mononegatives LP Crossing Visual Field is here!! 🎸☠️🎹☠️
In the past nothing could be recorded so most things were forgotten. Now everything can be recorded and it’s usually nothing we want to remember. Television Funeral can be seen as an entire albums worth of ideas presented into one recording, one catchy enough that you hopefully will want to remember but also one caustic enough that makes it hard to forget.
The vinyl release is a single disc that is a DVD - yes, it plays the music video when played in your DVD player - and also is a vinyl record that plays on your record player ⚫️🎥🔥🔥 Presenting the super rare DVD / vinyl combo disc!
As always - we only made a few of these and they are on sale now on the Dowdstore 🔥 Link in bio 🔥 We are offering free US and Canada shipping with the checkout code DVDVINYL🔥🔥
Cro-Magnon - the new mononegatives single is out now! ☠️🎹☠️
And we have another out-there vinyl release to go with it 😎😎😎
Cro-Magnon is Mononegatives as you have never heard them before 🔥🎸☠️🎹☠️🔥 and shows the expanded scope of sound and experimentation on their upcoming new LP Crossing Visual Field ⚡🔥💥
The Cro-Magnon vinyl release is a 7” record that is also a game - with two levels of difficulty 🤘🤘 And collectable prizes 🤘❤️🔥
Playing is easy - place the included characters on the record label, start the record and pick up as many characters as you can before the song ends ⏰🎸⏰
To win a prize you need to share an instagram video of you playing and tag @dowd_records and @mononegatives in your insta post.
🤘🤘🤘
Listen Here: Cro-magnon
North Carolina Atomic Bomb - the first single from Crossing Visual Field is here!! 🔥🎸☠️ And the press is all in!!
… a madcap speedrun of a song that slams the component parts of new wave through a lo-fi garage-punk aperture - punk news
it’s like they've time-travelled from the exciting days of post-punk electronica - green banana
…they’re always dropping these singles that have this knack for punishing your eardrums while offering up the teeniest hint at pop tendencies. No matter what, I’m always here for it. - austin town hall
Listen Here: North Carolina Atomic Bomb
The New Exit In Shards 7” maxi-single is here and shipping today! 🔥🎹🎸
This single is pressed on dark purple vinyl and is absolutely beautiful! This is a limited edition pressed vinyl run with printed insert🔥⚫️🔥⚫️
The lead track on the single is a banger called Second Self - easily the catchiest Mononegatives guitar song yet! 🎸🔥This is the full version of this track and is exclusive to this vinyl release🔥⚫️
The other two tracks on the single are Pychogenic Prison and House Of Cards 🏚🃏 Both are new and original tracks and are everything we love about mononegatives 🔥😎☠️
House Of Cards takes me back to my favorite old school skate rock tracks but with a Mononegatives twist 🛹🔥🎸 You will love it! 🔥🔥
HUGE SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT!!! The Mononegatives New Exit In Shards 7” maxi-single is here and shipping today!🔥🎹🎸
This single is pressed on dark purple vinyl and is absolutely beautiful! This is a limited edition pressed vinyl run with printed insert🔥⚫️🔥⚫️
The lead track on the single is a banger called Second Self - easily the catchiest Mononegatives guitar song yet! 🎸🔥This is the full version of this track and is exclusive to this vinyl release🔥⚫️
The other two tracks on the single are Pychogenic Prison and House Of Cards 🏚🃏 Both are new and original tracks and are everything we love about mononegatives 🔥😎☠️ House Of Cards takes me back to my favorite old school skate rock tracks but with a Mononegatives twist 🛹🔥🎸 You will love it! 🔥🔥
Canadian friends - the band will posting the 7” for sale with shipping from Canada on the Mononegatives Bandcamp page 😎😎
Track Listing:
Second Self
Psychogenic Prison
House of Cards
Facsimile EP on limited edition “Giallo” Yellow vinyl!!
We made just 150 copies of this great release from Mononegatives on yellow pressed vinyl. Includes printed lyric / art insert sheet.
From Maximum RockNRoll: Dowd Records issues a limited release (150 copies pressed to yellow vinyl) of this prolific Canadian synth punk act’s 2021 cassette. The A-side features two tracks of clanging post-punk with a touch of post-hardcore at the edges, particularly in the guitar timbres. Imagine a cross between SERVOTRON and JAY REATARD at his most mechanical. Not bad. But this B-side is fantastic! The title cut sounds like DEVO teaming up with A FRAMES to cover one of the more tuneful tracks on WIRE’s 154 or something by GARY NUMAN—just an excellent mix of herky-jerk guitar interwoven with an assembly line rhythm section and soaring synth melodies. Also, the record as a whole just sounds great—it’s crisp in all the right places, the vocals are crystal clear and well-mixed, and the bottom end still really packs a wallop. Really handsome physical release, as well. All in all, no complaints!
* Reviewer Alex Howell * Label Dowd * Issue MRR #484 • September 2023
From the band: This release is a reissue of the “Facsimile” tape from 2021. Dowd Records is putting it out on a nice yellow vinyl in an edition of 150 copies. 7” records are an excellent format music like ours and I am excited to get this release out. We got the audio mastered so it is going to sound a bit different than the tape Shit Squirt Records (Italy) put out. In honor of the Italian release we went with the “Giallo Yellow” colour scheme. Fun fact about this record: This is our first release as a four piece and the first all drum machine recording we have made public!
From me: These tracks are so awesome! It is Mononegatives showing a new side to their creativity. The records are being pressed by an amazing pressing plant here in the US and with the songs mastered for the vinyl… It sounds incredible!
Side A:
Vision Out Of Scope
Mandatory
Side B:
Facsimile
Collectors note: The cover art for this single Is one of 4 vinyl releases that feature a black border on two edges of the cover art. When the covers of all 4 of these releases are laid out next to each other, the borders line up to make a large black border around them all ⚡🔥💥
The other releases in this series are the New Exit In Shards 7”, the Facsimile 7” and the excellent Kill Mono flexi released by feral kids records
Facsimile EP
STREAMING EVERYWHERE
Pre-order on 7” yellow vinyl
Side A
Vision out of scope
Mandatory
Side B
Facsimile
This is the first release from the band as a four piece and the first all drum machine recording they have officially released! Pressed on yellow vinyl here in the US!
Introducing THE SENDER - A new version of highly lauded Furs Face pedal!!
Same super transparent and diverse fuzz circuit from the Furs Face pedal but with a new twist to the Octavia effect to make it more usable for synth and bass guitar. When Octavia is activated The Sender bypasses the lower frequency around the effect circuit, keeping the bass frequencies tone fat and rich while still effecting the higher frequencies. This creates a more tangible bass layer for the effected higher notes to sit on. It subtle but with a massive feel!
The Sender is a touch sensitive silicon fuzz with two footswitchable fuzz channels, plus an Octavia effect and a controllable circuit bending gated feedback loop. This pedal is insanely versatile with a massive range of fuzz tones and depth and takes guitar effects to place most single pedals can’t thanks to the Octavia with bass bypass effect and the computer melting, battery dying glitch sound making gated feedback loop.
The art for each pedal is unique one-of-a-kind art from Mononegatives.
Listen to Rob from Mononegatives on the awesome Born Too Late Podcast!!
The Mononegatives debut LP, Apparatus Division came out in 2021 and immediately blew up beyond all expectations. It was named Album of the Week by 50Thirdand3rd, received rave reviews from every outlet that heard the album and the vinyl sold out in a day. You can grab the album on the Mononegative Bandcamp here: Mononegatives Bandcamp.
Want more? Read the Mononegatives interview on 50THIRDAND3RD here: Mononegatives Interview and check out the Apparatus Division album review on Faster and Louder here: Apparatus Division review
Also not to be missed is the track and video for Lifestyle from the Killed By Meth # 5 compilation from it’s Trash Records. Grab a copy while you can!
London, Ontario's MONONEGATIVES deliver raw punk meets new wave/synth-punk with a high-anxiety modern-day ripping lo-fi punk sound. Their highly original and fascinating take on punk rock meets new wave is dark and discordant yet full of uplifting energy.