I remember tomorrow just if I get hurt.

June 14, 2010, 0 comments

Reverb-laced guitars and blurred synth patterns playing subtle melodies over hushed and distant drum machine beats, a sad voice singing slowly about the burdens of being in love and being alive: In an east Bohemian town somewhere beyond Prague, Tomas Kopacek makes achingly beautiful bedroom dream pop under the moniker Mon Insomnie. As yet, there are only five songs available via his bandcamp site, but these are pieces promising a lot for his first full-length which is about to be released by the marvelous Wonder Beard Tapes this summer.

Mon Insomnie will be in Berlin this month for a couple of shows, supporting his hero Ariel Pink at Lovelite on June 20, and playing three consecutive nights at the Future Gallery as a part of an art exhibition from June 25 to 27.


Update: I’ve just been informed by Martin Kohout, the artist at whose exhibition Tomas will perform at the Future Galaxy, that he is not going to play as Mon Insomnie there. What’s really gonna happen is still a secret – according to Martin, Tomas “will be playing music, but it will not be a concert and the name Mon Insomnie will not participate in the whole“. Anyway, still sounds worth attending.

Below, there are three songs available for download, along with the video for Barbed Wires which is for sure the simplest, saddest and loveliest piece of film in 2010. Mon Insomnie is desperate loneliness expressed in the most beautiful and intriguing way I’ve heard in a long time – with lines like “Kill me/I’ve no will to fight”, the songs leave you alone, barely reassuring you that after all, happiness is a place somewhere else.

Mon Insomnie – Barbed Wires

Mon Insomnie – Missing Lust

Mon Insomnie – No Will

By NFOP