Mike Monday’s second album, Songs Without Words, is out in Europe in October.

It’s the next phase of Monday’s advance into electronics. His debut LP, Smorgasbord was an IDJ album of the year, a “classic” in One Week to Live and an “LP we can’t put down”, according to DJ mag. But his new CD, Songs Without Words, is a step beyond.

Simulaneously serious and light hearted, it’s Monday staking out a big claim for electronic music: that vocals can’t provide half the experimental and emotional charge of cutting-edge electronic noise.

But while its humour pushes the album well away from the predictable monotony of today’s dance music, it’s the most committed European electronica acts supporting Monday’s ideas. With fans from Kiki to Tiefschwarz, Will Saul to Falko Brocksieper, Alex Flatner to to Anthony Collins, MANDY to incredible support from Laurent Garnier (“I love the personality of Mike’s music”), Monday has put a human face and human emotion to the best elements of today’s electronic production.

Tracklist
01. Grace
02. Through The Keyhole
03. Catnip
04. Bad Wind (With a Touch of Acid)
05. The 11 11
06. Along Came Nookie
07. I Am Plankton
08. Salieri Complex
09. The Unanswered Question
10. Stargirl

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