Monotronic Maps Two Years of Sound and Experience in "Waiting for You" - KALTBLUT Magazine

"The work behind "Waiting for You" by Monotronic spanned two years and several geographic mindsets. Its songs were built in the contained spaces of an East Village apartment and the open humidity of Tulum, initially seeming like disparate projects with no clear direction. Only in retrospect did their shared disposition come into focus. This is an album about the slow work of self-knowledge, which here looks less like an epiphany and more like the gradual acceptance of a particular signal,"

"His songwriting treats sound and experience as cultural artefacts to be collected and reassembled; if that sounds like archaeology, it's no coincidence. The resulting music is functional and fused, drawing from the directness of indie rock and incorporating a range of palatable and catchy electro-pop flourishes, all seasoned with a healthy, worldly perspective and texture that Elkholy picked up in places like Sumatra and India."

Waiting for You was created over two years across New York and Tulum, combining intimate apartment recordings with humid, open-air sessions. The album frames self-knowledge as gradual acceptance rather than sudden revelation, emphasizing a constant, low hum of solitude. Characters on the record bear the marks of quiet introspection and occasional physical missteps, conveying earned resilience. Monotronic is Ramsey Elkholy’s project; his anthropological approach treats sound as cultural artefact, blending indie rock directness with catchy electro-pop and global textures gathered from places like Sumatra and India. The 11-track collection ranges from post-punk to Asian-influenced pieces and includes a cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." The project began in New York and is now based in Los Angeles.

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