Paris Monster - Lamplight (2019)

Electronic pop, garage rock, soul, funk, Americana, folk, experimental – there are plenty of words that can, and have, been used to describe NYC-based duo paris_monster. But Geoff Kraly (bass, modular synth) and Josh Dion (drums, keyboard synth, vocals) aren’t too concerned with how people describe them. “I guess there’s a lot of influences that come through that make it hard to pin down what you’d call us,” Kraly concedes. “Which – I kinda like that. I like our influences showing – it doesn’t matter to me what you call it, really.” Dion explains, “We’re still trying to find the right couple of words… but most of the time when people get extremely detailed about calling a style of music something, to me it just ends up sounding like something you’ve heard already but just another way to call the same thing something different, you know. I guess it really just falls under the alternative style.”