Monaco- Music For PleasureLabel: Music On Vinyl Reissued 7 4 2025, Originally released 1997 180 gram black vinyl. Music For Pleasure is the 1997 debut studio album by Monaco, a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook. When New Order went on a hiatus after 1993's Republic, Hook took the group's sound and spirit with him and founded Monaco together with David Potts. Hook's distinctive pulsating bass lines united New Order's marriage of post punk and pop, creating an

Perseverance–1C2S

Mountain of the Sun

8 Angels Rearrange

Indigo Is Blue

The Loss of Thulê

The Pressman 5:08

which they plan to continue to push along their massive upcoming tour schedule

James Sedwards (piano

containing some of the group's best production value and most accomplished arrangements to date

but the words & music dervishing off these grooves accurately expresses the Love poured into the foundations beneath these Nocturnes (w/ Britta Phillips) and Psalms (w/ David Grubbs) and Preludes (w/ Eerie Wanda) and Elegies (w/ Jad Fair & Danielson)a n d Laments (w/ Paul Leary) and Hymns (w/Rob Crow)

You just go in and play

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