Tonight we feel more than enthusiastic to host the exclusive track premiere of ‘Time To Start A Riot‘ on Last Day Deaf, by the Norwegian band Monalia. Despite the song’s melancholic, dream rock soundscapes, this one is a wake-up call, if not a direct call of action, and a bold demand for change.
In its 4 minutes the listener will get transported to the Californian 60s era, in which the hippies’ movement was at its peak. The glorious harmonies, the expressive vocals, the rich arrangement and the hazy flow are genuinely combined with the lyrics, and this is by far the band’s magnum opus up to today…. Don’t know if it’s the right time to start a riot, but we firmly believe it’s the rightest time to get to know this band and start from this….
Press Notes:
On Friday 10th of June, Monalia will release their new single “Time to Start a Riot”, a protest song wrapped in sweet harmonies with clear references to California’s late ’60s, both in sound and thematics.
Put all excuses aside, Monalia’s new single “Time to Start a Riot” is a direct call to action. To rebellion. Because the song is about standing up for what you believe in and daring to demand change, despite your own fears and doubts. Whether it is on a personal level or in a larger societal context.
“There are plenty of things in today’s society that we can feel annoyed about. But getting annoyed rarely makes any difference – action is the only thing that creates change, and today is as good as any day to start a riot”, says singer Stine Helén Tunstrøm.
The song has an unapologetic and confrontational theme wrapped in beautiful harmonies – a flirtation with contrasts that has become a kind of signature. It’s melancholy and dreamy, just the way we know Monalia, but this time their so called mountain surf has gotten a warm breeze from California. It all ends with a psychedelic outro of despairing slide guitar and a long vocal delay.
Time to Start a Riot is the first Monalia song where the band has done everything themselves from start to finish, produced and mixed by guitarist Svein Petter Nilssen.
“I thought that the biggest challenge of doing everything “in-house” and wearing two hats, would be to get to the finish line without the band dissolving. But the process turned out to go surprisingly well”, says Svein Petter Nilssen.