The Mon

The Mon is the solo project of Urlo, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist of the Italian doom pride Ufomammut. Active since 2018 with the debut Doppelleben, The Mon closes an ideal double album with Songs Of Embrace, following the release, just a few months ago, of Songs Of Abandon.

These two records form a peculiar diptych: inseparably linked, yet at the same time very different. The former is acoustic and vocal-driven, the latter electronic and instrumental, still representing two sides of the same coin—namely, a long journey through solitude and despair, in which the author seeks a form of resolution through a stream of consciousness capable of making discomfort bearable.

This unified flow of thirty-eight minutes (the ten tracks should be understood as a single listening experience) requires total surrender from the listener, within a path marked by various contaminations. At times, ambient textures prevail—far from static (Invocation Of The Abyss, Three Nails, One Heart), instead charged with tension and unease. The doom-laden distortions of The Sigil reconnect with Ufomammut’s roots, while the post-rock acoustic guitars of Incantation clearly echo the desolate and poetic sound of Labradford. The minimalist piano of A Pearlescent Pulse Of Light may recall, for more attentive listeners, the early (and arguably finest) works of Library Tapes.

These paths of solitude seek a resolution, finding it only in the writing and composition of pieces that aim to become the soundtrack to the acceptance of suffering. Embracing abandonment (Embrace The Abandon) may be the therapy: learning to coexist with undeniably unsettling electronic pulses, yet still evidence of a life fully lived.

01/04/2026