The debut single from Perth-based experimental psych outfit Monotonic. 'The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche' is lifted from their forthcoming album "Heavy Metal", due out in 2026. 

Heavy Metal
From the found sound, ground-up provenance of lockdown-era extended three-piece jams canvassing psych, drone, dub, motorik and acid in equal measures in the leafy depths of the Perth Hills comes Monotonic’s eight-track swizzled cocktail of sonic poetry, Heavy Metal. If unfamiliar melody betokens the accumulation of the past, the past is always present and the future is always now, Heavy Metal is future retro recherché, time’s livid final flame.

Biography
Monotonic brings together three musicians from a golden era of Perth music. In the mid-90s Ammonia, Header and Yummy Fur made their mark on the alt-nation of the time with high rotation triple j airplay, appearances on ABC-TV’s Saturday morning show Recovery and exhaustive east coast and overseas touring. Alan Balmont (drums), Jack Lucas (guitar) and Liam Coffey (vocals, bass) spent 2024 putting together the suite of songs that would end up as Monotonic’s debut album, Heavy Metal — a cocktail of sonic poetry and melodic sensibility, and a heady melange of such disparate influences as Acid Rock, early 70s Dub and Psychedelic Motorik-Drone revival. But definitely not Heavy Metal.

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Heavy Metal

The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche

Monotonic - The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche

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