Praise for International Hello‘s S/T from Still Single:  The members of Monoshock, a monstrous Bay Area acid-psych A-bomb that detonated in the '90s, reconvene under a name they used as a song title. This isn't reunion as much as it is reorganization. Comets on Fire expanded upon nearly all of Monoshock's themes anyway, and it's refreshing to hear that the members of a powerful band won't rest on their laurels in the decades to follow.

The opening behemoth ‘Arise Superslide’ announces their departure in familiar form, by blasting the paint and Sonex off the studio walls. it's a formidable smear of heavy motor-psych blasting, but there's not enough room for complacency, voices jumping in and out of the fray, as crushing rhythms shift around, bass surges up and down, and an overactive synths catfights the guitar.

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