Monograms Share "How To Sleep With Your Eyes Open" Single, New LP 'Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever' Out July 31st

MONOGRAMS SHARE "HOW TO SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN" SINGLE VIA POND  NEW LP OUT 7/31 VIA PAPERCUP MUSIC LEAD SINGLE "AMERICAN DREAMZ" AND "HOW TO SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN" OUT NOW

Photo Cred: Michelle LoBianco LISTEN & SHARE: Monograms - "American Dreamz" [Official Single] Stream LISTEN & SHARE: Monograms - "How To Sleep With Your Eyes Open" Stream "There’s a mix of dark electropop and a sound reminiscent of Joy Division. It all sounds apocalyptic, very fitting with today’s time." - Earmilk "Jacobs’ songwriting is at the heart of the project, with cynical, pointillist lyrics, lucid beats and angular riffs. The music of Monograms explores moody and introspective ambient pop." - Post-Punk Earlier this month, Brooklyn "nuke wave" project Monograms announced their upcoming 14-track LP Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever. Earlier this year, POND premiered album track "How To Sleep With Your Eyes Open," the first to be released from the upcoming record. Listen to lead single "American Dreamz" and album track "How To Sleep With Your Eyes Open" on all streaming platforms now. Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever LP is due out July 31st via PaperCup Music. Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever is now available on Bandcamp for presale. Monograms is donating 50% of all sales to Know Your Rights Camp, an organization whose "mission is to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders." PaperCup Music will also be matching every donation. The album was recorded and written almost entirely in isolation at Jacobs' home studio during the Covid-19 quarantine, and amongst all the recent protests and social injustices that have taken place over the past 3+ months. "Everyone I know just feels really frustrated about the situation. The politics, the sacrifices everyone is making, and the reality has been a very twilight zone-like kind of time for the entire world and the country. The title of the album was a phrase I kept thinking about within that thought process. When is it going to be ok to go outside again? And also how you can’t keep things hidden and locked up forever… these checkered pasts have to get drawn out. These last few months just felt kind of surreal, a true 'how did we get here?' kinda moment. And I think personally, I just needed to do something creative to bob and weave with all these things, so I just started writing some words down and recording some ideas and experimenting. Some songs were more electronic and pulsing through the frustration of the time, and some are more down-tempo and introspective. After a few weeks, it all started to spiral into what felt like a cohesive thought, so it became an album in my mind." ONLY A CEILING CAN STAY INSIDE FOREVER - TRACKLISTING 01. Advocate 02. How to Sleep With Your Eyes Open 03. Shape Up 04. Still Vision 05. The Great Bazaar 06. Lines (featuring Kat E) 07. American Dreams 08. Super Duper Seatbelt Survivor 09. Me and You 10. You and Me 11. Wide Eyed Earth 12. Walking Down A Spy Glass 13. Quarantine Maps 14. Tire Tread MONOGRAMS LINKS Website - Facebook - Instagram MONOGRAMS BIO Monograms is the alias of front-man and multi-instrumentalist Ian Jacobs. Over the past few years, the project quickly expanded from a Brooklyn, NYC bedroom recording experiment to a full band endeavor; current lineup includes Ali Yildiz (drums), Michelle Feliciano (synth) and Devan Davies-Wood (bass). Since its conception, Monograms has supported some well known international indie regulars such as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Goggs (Ty Segall/Ex Cult) Sunflower Bean, Ezra Furman, Man or Astro-Man?, Buscabulla, Caveman, A Place To Bury Strangers, Girl Band, Be Forest, Vertical Scratchers (Merge Records), Dreamers, Gang Of Youths, Quilt and more; as well as notable press, streams and premieres from all over the U.S. and Europe (Brooklyn Vegan, the 405, Alt Citizen, CMJ, Northern Transmissions, Adhoc and more). The music of Monograms puts listeners in moody and introspective pop song structures that are driven and melodic, but also ambient at the same time. Jacobs’ songwriting is at the heart of the project, capable of crafting a range of landscapes and cynical, pointillism lyrics. Lucid beats and angular riffs, often point Monograms' approach to sonic structures within the heyday of DIY, new wave or alternative college radio, as well as the abundance of contemporary vibes that pull from similar genres. Monograms is Brooklyn's "Nuke Wave".