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Coventry, United Kingdom (1993 – present)
Monica’s Last Prayer are a gothic/darkwave project based in central England. Their sound varies from release to release - ranging from upbeat gothic/post-punk rock to introspective nu-gaze.
Paul Broome - Vocals, Guitars, Etc
Heather Slater - Piano, Backing Vocals
New Mini-LP - ‘The Buried Life’ - available for free download now from http://monicaslastprayer.bandcamp.com
New 3-track single, ‘Revolutions’, released 28th March 2011 at the URL above.
And a special one-off track, ‘Starve A Fever, Feed A Cold’, was released on the 13th of December 2011 at the same site. This track serves as a stop-gap before the next album, due Easter 2012.
Also all of the original 90’s four-track demos are now available for download from there aswell - under the guise of the Analogue Archives volumes 1 to 4.
A potted history…
Monica’s Last Prayer began life in the early 1990s, as a side project for Paul Broome (guitarist with Goth band Earth Calling Angela). Several 4-track demo cassettes were recorded and circulated in the mid-90s. In 1996 Mick Mercer called Paul “a modern-day weeping equivalent to Nick Drake” in his book The Hex Files. After working on several other projects in the early years of this century, Paul returned to Monica’s Last Prayer in 2004 – rearranging and re-recording some of the old four-track songs. The result was the album Another Time, released in January 2005 by Humane Music – a catalog of MLP’s history, and a gentle nudge toward the future.
The 2005 album, Transparent, was somewhat of a departure from the reverb-soaked reverie of what has gone before, but it also felt like a natural progression.
Paul Broome - Vocals, Guitars, Etc
Heather Slater - Piano, Backing Vocals
New Mini-LP - ‘The Buried Life’ - available for free download now from http://monicaslastprayer.bandcamp.com
New 3-track single, ‘Revolutions’, released 28th March 2011 at the URL above.
And a special one-off track, ‘Starve A Fever, Feed A Cold’, was released on the 13th of December 2011 at the same site. This track serves as a stop-gap before the next album, due Easter 2012.
Also all of the original 90’s four-track demos are now available for download from there aswell - under the guise of the Analogue Archives volumes 1 to 4.
A potted history…
Monica’s Last Prayer began life in the early 1990s, as a side project for Paul Broome (guitarist with Goth band Earth Calling Angela). Several 4-track demo cassettes were recorded and circulated in the mid-90s. In 1996 Mick Mercer called Paul “a modern-day weeping equivalent to Nick Drake” in his book The Hex Files. After working on several other projects in the early years of this century, Paul returned to Monica’s Last Prayer in 2004 – rearranging and re-recording some of the old four-track songs. The result was the album Another Time, released in January 2005 by Humane Music – a catalog of MLP’s history, and a gentle nudge toward the future.
The 2005 album, Transparent, was somewhat of a departure from the reverb-soaked reverie of what has gone before, but it also felt like a natural progression.
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Featured Tracks
| FULL TRACK Dollface | 3:42 | Free MP3 |
| FULL TRACK Wow & Flutter | 2:57 | Free MP3 |
| FULL TRACK Prayerbook | 4:15 | |
| FULL TRACK Pieces | 3:20 | |
| FULL TRACK Pure Reason | 4:17 | Free MP3 |
| FULL TRACK My Kingdom | 6:01 |
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oblician wrote:
Great review of latest EP: http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/1103647.html Can see why the number of listeners is finally starting to rise... Glad you're starting to finally get the recognition you deserve!
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paleheather wrote:
Music to lose yourself in! :-)
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oblician wrote:
Found this review on Mick Mercer's site: http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/866420.html
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fwumpbungle updated the wiki page for Monica's Last Prayer. (diff) December 2011
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