Monogamy

House of Wires | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tooth & Nail Records
• ASIN: B000035X2Z
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,118 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Monogamy

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth becoming obsessed with, August 27, 2002

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D. H. Richards "ninthwavestore" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monogamy (Audio CD)

This is an outstanding following album for HOW. While at first, casual, listen the CD seems hard to get into, a closer listen and then repeated listenings lets the album open like a flower (sorry, bad analogy but true).
This is music that grows with you, it does not just grows old. A couple of years later and I still put this on from time to time. There is soemthing very engrossing about the songs here. While many seem simple they can be very complex. And the lyrics are thoughtful, something often missing in the synthpop genre.
Yeah, I said synthpop, which is pigeon-holing the band too much. They sound like Depeche Mode the way Depeche Mode sounds like Don McLean, i.e. not at all. But they do make left of center pop music with electronics, so...
Heck, I would release them on my label in a minute :-)

-Dave

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars May be the best CD you've never heard, July 16, 2002

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Mark Marshall (Corpus Christi, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monogamy (Audio CD)

This may be my favorate cd of all time. House of Wires is an obscure techno group that was on Tooth and Nail's Plastiq Musiq label. Why they were dropped I do not know.

Monogamy is influenced by 80's techno pop but is more arty and thoughtful.

The vocals are understated but wonderful, going perfectly with the music. If you like OMD's vocalizations, as I do, House of Wires is even better, if you can believe that.

The cd has quite a range in mood, from the fun World of the Future and Caroline to the downbeat The Door with 5000 Locks. The later is an incredible song, both in it's slow, etherial, yet powerful instrumentation and in its spare, but deep, perceptive lyrics. Creating a sound like a camera going off, yet also using haunting strings and piano, The Door with 5000 Locks is typical of HofW's creative versitility.

Yes, this is a "Christian" cd. But don't let that scare you. It's not preachy at all. It's a shame this cd has not reached a wider audience. It deserves to.

But, hey, you can know some incredible music hardly anyone else does.

5.0 out of 5 stars sonorous synth, December 17, 2001

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S (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monogamy (Audio CD)

This album is somewhat melancholy- like someone nearing the end of a long romance, but at peace with himself and gaining a perspective on the world. "Where is my Mind?" is an awe inspiring, spacy synth version of the Pixies' classic. The others are wonderful synth songs like those you can listen to on their later release, Monogamy [...].

House of Wires distill the smooth, high production values of great New Wave bands and adds maturity, sophistication, and lots of sounds I've never heard out of a synthesizer before. The vocalist has a pleasing, sonorous voice; the music is all wonderfully listenable and enjoyable without being boring. I bore easily so I listen to mostly alternative styles of music; there is nothing better than finding an artist that does very new things in a truly listenable and enjoyable way.