MONARCH OF MONSTERS

Vylet Pony's Monarch of Monsters is maybe the most important prog rock album released in 2024. Not for being radically different from its predecessors, but for how it forces introspection in the average prog listener. Vylet Pony has baggage as an artist, due how they come from outside of the more traditional prog spheres. Listeners who have very strict views on what is and isn't prog are forced to grapple with the fact that a great artist may come from anywhere, even the brony/furry portion of the internet.

As for the album itself, it's very good. The production is a full solo project, the artist Zelda Trixie Lulamoon plays all instruments and sings all vocals. She has also written every song, along with the additional novel that accompanies the album. The sound of the album is a bit awkward, in how you very quickly start to pick it into different pieces from where the artist has drawn inspiration from. As an example I recognized a lot of portions which where very similar to Sprain's unapologetic experimental rock. It still manages to be a cohesive whole, which feels like respectful bow instead of imitation.

On the thematic side Monarch is a concept album with an overarching narrative. It grapples with processing trauma, self hatred, and finally healing. It seems to stem from a very personal source of anguish, but its tasteful in how it communicates the misery. It is uncomfortable, but there's method to the madness. I'll leave it at that, since I believe it's much more fullfilling for the listener to piece the narrative together than to read someone else's summary of it.

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