FOR MY PARENTS

For My Parents is the 2012 album by MONO, the Japanese quartet who, over the course of a half dozen albums in twice as many years, has followed their own muse, and in the process have become "one of the most distinctive bands of the 21st century." They are an instrumental rockband whose melodies have grown increasingly lyrical, with increasingly transcendent execution. There is no doubting a Mono song when you hear it, and no denying their uncanny ability to feelperfectly at home in both pristine symphony halls and dirty rock clubs.