Album Title: Mystery Cove LP
Artist(s): Monster Rally
Year: 2016
Genre(s)/Style(s): Exotica, Other
Track Listing:
Monster Rally’s fourth full length record.
“Mystery Cove, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.
Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.
- Washed Ashore 02:29
- Full Sail 02:34
- Pelicans 02:41
- In The Valleys 02:20
- The Birds Pt. 4 02:17
- Island Romance 03:13
- Banana Bread 02:06
- Mystic 02:17
- The Island School 00:55
- In The Canopy 01:35
- The Big Surf 02:56
- Tourismo 01:07
- Moonlight Chase 01:38
- Moondog 02:25
- After Hours 01:30
- Burning Citrus 01:17
- The Tiki Room 01:14
- Smokey Cabana 02:30
- Little Buddy 03:07
- Misty Sunset 02:21
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