The Monochrome Set – Fabula Mendax

“Fabula Mendax” is based on manuscripts written in the 15th Century by Armande de Pange, a companion of Jehanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc). This is The Monochrome Set at its most ornate, and, much like Joan of Arc’s ensemble, features a myriad of fiddlers, pluckers, beaters, tinklers and wailers, surrounding a central core of notorious crackpots. The hauntingly melodic pop harks back to the early TMS period of “Eine Symphonie Des Grauens”, but is now complemented by a (periodically unemployed) vampire’s orchestra, whose cha-cha-charnel chiming careens into carnal rhyming chanting, while saints and demons trip lightly across the slick red fields of liberty. As with all TMS albums, “Fabula Mendax” is at once accessible and arcane, upbeat and dark, lush and spare, and with lyrics that as ever remain tantalisingly opaque.

Available on CD and limited dark green LP (300 copies only).

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Release date: September 27th, 2019

Tracklisting:
1. Rest, Unquiet Spirit
2. Throw It Out The Window
3. My Little Reliquary
4. Eux Tous
5. Darkly Sly
6. Summer Of The Demon
7. I Can't Sleep
8. Come To Me, Oh, My Beautiful
9. Sliding Icicle
10. La Chanson De La Pucelle