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Pepper Jar (single)

by Monnone Alone

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Written, played, sung, recorded and lino-cut by Mark Monnone.
Mixed by Gareth Parton at Los Bomberos.
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick.

Short, bittersweet and stitched together with carbon steel pop hooks is 'Pepper Jar', the new single from Monnone Alone.

The third taste of his new album Stay Foggy is another of Mark Monnone's econo-powerpop morsels, written and recorded at home during Melbourne's 2020 lockdown.

Taking inspiration from the sparsely complex worlds of Richard Brautigan's poetry and old Pete Townshend demos, Monnone set to work wrangling his runaway non sequiturs and testing how much jingle-jangle and kids' percussion he could squeeze onto a cassette 8-track machine.

If you squint your ears, the song's chorus suggests a wishlist of sorts ("on a piece of paper in the pepper jar") to what's waiting on the other side of months spent stagnating in covid-limbo; the outro all but throwing its arms open to all new possibilities.

Stay Foggy is out September 3 on Lost And Lonesome (Aus), Emotional Response (US), Meritorio (Spain) and Royal Mint (Finland).

lyrics

Bend over in paradise
And end up in contemplation
Too long with my own devices
Goodbye to good vibrations

‘Cause I found out
Where we are
On a piece of paper
In the pepper jar, in the pepper jar

A self-professed genius
Hamstrung by my indecision
She’s seen me at my best
Come undone when I’m in the kitchen

‘Cause I found out
Where we are
On a piece of paper
In the pepper jar, in the pepper jar

I’m gonna love every day I’m livin’
Not gonna waste any chance I’m given
I’m gonna love every day I’m livin’
Not gonna waste any chance I’m given

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released July 16, 2021

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Monnone Alone Melbourne, Australia

Monnone Alone is Mark Monnone (formerly of The Lucksmiths) with a band that may or may not include Joe Foley, Louis Richter, Gus Franklin and Stanley Paulzen.

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