MONO (London Hackney Church, 26/10/24)

The Japanese group's new album "Oath" - performed in full tonight with strings and other frippery- is surely one of their 'mellower' offerings, albeit one that retains at least 5 pulverising post-rock climaxes because of course it does. Good stuff for the most part, if a bit MONO-by-numbers. (I will admit however that closing number "Everlasting Light" was so transcendently epic, it made this middle-aged man wipe more than one tear from his eye).