New Exit in Shards & Shows # 963, 962, 961

Mononegatives are a band from London, Ontario. Featuring Rob Brake on guitar/synth/vocals, Jon Lamont on bass/synths and David Cereghini on drums/synths, they put out a few self-released EPs (Sure Shock & 5 Second Future) in 2019. Mononegatives released their debut album, Apparatus Division, in 2021 on No Front Teeth Records and Big Neck Records. The album quickly sold out, garnering critical acclaim for its distinctive take on the punk meets new wave genre. Bursting with nervous energy and themes relating to technology, boredom, alienation, anxiousness and suburbia, the songs also feature strong hooks in-between all the synth-punk chaos. Their sound has been described as “raw punk meets new wave.” All members have been active in numerous bands in the London music scene such as Isolation Party, Klazo, Curb, Telegenic Pleasure and The Syndrome Disleksick.

In 2021, they released several singles and an EP (Facsimile, Frequencies Rotating Clockwise, a split single with Mystery Girl). The Facsimile EP is getting a re-release. It was originally released on cassette through the Mimetics Zine label in Italy and is now coming out through the US label Dowd Records on vinyl, who released three singles and one EP from the band in 2022. “Role Reversal” opens 2022’s Counterclockwise Interjection, starting with a dizzying array of synthesizers before an electronic sounding bass drum, fuzzy guitar and vocals and lyrics come through. “Consumer Trust” attacks like a Devo-meets-garage punk song, while lyrically the words are hard to decipher at times, they tackle consumerism themes. New Exit In Shards is a three-track maxi-single. Released on Dowd Records, “Second Self” features catchy post-punk guitars, while the chorus features lyrics such as “See parallel Lives/Opposite of sides/Framework falls apart/New exit in shards” reflecting introspective paranoia as the song picks up in a grimy punk fashion before ending in pulsating synthesizers. “Psychogenic Prison” sounds influenced by Tubeway Army and 70s/80s punk, while “House of Cards” ends the single in less than a minute as synthesizers and guitars battle each other for space while reverby vocals and drums float overtop and in-between. A limited run single entitled Retroaction was also released in 2022, it featured a different (radio edit) version of “Second Self” and the song “Consumer Trust.” Mononegatives are currently at work on their second full-length album.


Show 963 Playlist (Originally Aired On December 3rd, 2022)(Blondie, Sloan, R. Ring, Special Interest, Mononegatives, OFF!):

1. The Surf Hermits - Showdown 
2. The Rumblers - Boss 
3.  Black Angels - Vermillion Eyes 
4.  The Volebeats - All I'm Asking 
5.  Dana Gavinski - Strangers 
6.  The Velvet Underground - Story of my Life 
7.  Sunglaciers – Avoidance
8.  White Lung – Hysteric 
9.  Otoboke Beaver – I Don't Want to Die Alone 
10. The Linda Lindas – Tonite
11. Blondie - The Disco Song (1974 Demo) 
12. Blondie - X Offender 
13. Blondie - In The Sun
14. Blondie - I Didn’t Have the Nerve To Say No
15. Blondie - Detroit 442 (Take 2) 
16. Blondie - Moonlight Drive
17. Sloan – Nice Work If You Can Get It 
18. R. Ring – Still Life 
19. Apollo Ghosts – Golden Teacher 
20. Archers of Loaf – Saturation and Light
21. Teenage Art Scene – Dynastic Dialogue 
22. Sunday Morning - Junkie Don’t Care 
23. Fake Palms - Flags 
24. Mononegatives - Vision Out Of Scope
25. Mononegatives - Trauma Tourist 
26. Mononegatives - Time Warp 
27. Preoccupations – Fix Bayonettes! 
28. Special Interest – Concerning Peace
29. OFF! - Circuitry's God

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the December 3 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 962 Playlist (Originally Aired On November 26th, 2022)(Can's Ege Bamyası, Wilko Johnson, Self-Cut Bangs, Bill Callahan, Johnny West):

1.  Fruit Tones - Back In The Night (Again) 

2.  Urkimsher - Lonely Touch 

3.  Self-Cut Bangs - Stargazer

4.  Trophy Knife - Headspace Saver

5.  Mononegatives - Second Self 

6.  Can – Vitamin C

7.  Stephen Malkmus and Friends – Spoon 

8.  Beck – I'm So Green

9.  Dr. Feelgood - Talking About You (Live) 

10. Dr. Feelgood - Roxette 

11. Dr. Feelgood - Ohyeh! 

12. Dr. Feelgood - Going Back Home

13. Wilko Johnson - Bottle Up & Go 

14. Wilko Johnson - Barbed Wired Blues

15. Weary – Wax 

16. Bill Callahan – Bowevil

17. Julianna Riolino – Long Feeling

18. Carson McHone - End of the World (Camera Varda) 

19. Johnny West - Losing Light

20. Tim Swaddling - Little Timmy

21. Skye Wallace – Tear a Piece (Bite Me)

22. Built to Spill – Gonna Lose 

23. Heaven for Real – Take It Away 

24. Young Guv – Scam Likely

25. Art d'Ecco – Get Loose 

26. Bonaparte - Beat It

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the November 26 file to download/stream the episode. 

Show 961 Playlist (Originally Aired on November 19th, 2022)(Dick Dale's Surfer's Choice 50th anniversary, Keith Levene, Dead Kennedys, PJ Harvey, White Lung):

1.  Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – Surf Beat 
2.  Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – Surfing Drums 
3.  Bloodshot Bill – Jangled 
4.  The Surfrajettes – El Condor Pasa 

5.  Tuff Darts - Head Over Heels (Live At CBGB 1976)

6.  Robert Gordon with Link Wray - Fire 
7.  Robert Gordon - Rock Billy Boogie 

8.  PJ Harvey – Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name 

9.  Big Joanie – Taut 
10. Courtney Barnett – Words and Guitar 
11. Temps – Fomo 

12. Public Image Limited - Public Image 
13. Public Image Limited - Memories
14. Public Image Limited - Radio 4

15. Public Image Limited - Flowers of Romance

16. Keith Levene – I'm Looking for Something 

17. Katy DiTondo & Keith Levene - London 1976

18. Dead Kennedys – Forest Fire

19. Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
20. Bad Waitress – Racket Stimulator 
21. White Lung – Tomorrow 
22. The Berries - Night Winds
23. Threads of Fybre - Mama 
24. Allison Brown - Old Fires 
25. Ghost Woman - Broke

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the November 19 file to download/stream the episode.