Monograms Share "Lines" Single, New LP 'Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever' Out Friday Via PaperCup Music

MONOGRAMS SHARE "LINES" (FEATURING KAT E) VIA LEFT BANK MAGAZINE  NEW LP ONLY A CEILING CAN STAY INSIDE FOREVER OUT FRIDAY VIA PAPERCUP MUSIC (PRE-ORDER VIA BANDCAMP NOW) 50% OF PROCEEDS FROM ALL ALBUM SALES WILL BE DONATED TO KNOW YOUR RIGHTS CAMP PAPERCUP MUSIC WILL ALSO BE MATCHING EVERY DONATION

LISTEN & SHARE: Monograms - "Lines" [Official Single] Stream LISTEN & SHARE: Monograms - "American Dreamz" [Official Single] Stream LISTEN & SHARE: Monograms - "How To Sleep With Your Eyes Open" Stream "Alienation transcends to the listening experience — dark filtered vox and phaser-laden keys create a foreboding energy evocative of New York’s collective psyche during those deserted, early April 2020 days. Perfect listening for gazing forlornly at the world at large from your bedroom window..." - The Deli "Dark and broody, but not lacking in total dance-appeal, Monograms has developed a sound that is uniquely their own. Channeling a dark synthwave soundscape and lyrics that could be taken out of a Rimbaud book, Monograms produces the perfect music for what has quickly grown to be a year of quarantine." - Left Bank Magazine "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 Brooklyn "nuke wave" project Monograms share "Lines" (featuring Kat E.), the final single to be released ahead of their upcoming album,Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever, out this Friday via PaperCup Music.  Last week, Left Bank Magazine premiered the track, praising "Channeling a dark synthwave soundscape and lyrics that could be taken out of a Rimbaud book, Monograms produces the perfect music for what has quickly grown to be a year of quarantine. We may all be stuck in this personal—and shared—hell, but Monograms makes it palatable." Only A Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever LP is available for pre-order via Bandcamp now, and will be out on all streaming platforms this Friday. Monograms will be donating 50% of all sales of the album on Bandcamp 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 match each donation made via Bandcamp sales of the record in support of Know Your Rights Camp. The upcoming 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." MONOGRAMS LINKS Website - Facebook - Instagram 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