Monsters of Folk Hit The Top 20
10/01/2009
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(PR) Monsters of Folk's self-titled debut, out now on Shangri-La Music, has hit #15 on the Top 200 chart, selling nearly 35,000 albums in its first week of release. The Top 20 album is the first recorded collaborative effort of the group's acclaimed members - Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis,My Morning Jacket's Jim James and singer/songwriter M.Ward.
Monsters of Folk began as folklore of sorts, when James, Oberst, Ward and Mogis did their first run of shows together in 2004, affectionately known amongst friends and crew as the "Monsters of Folk Tour." While entertaining audiences coast to coast, the foursome vowed to make their way to a studio at some point after the tour's completion. Instead, the songsmiths went on to individually release some of rock music's most exciting and essential albums of the last five years – Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning & Cassadaga; My Morning Jacket's Z & Evil Urges; M. Ward's Post War and Hold Time. Never ones to forget their promise, when downtime presented itself, they convened in the studio multiple times over two years, with Mogisat the helm of their first recorded effort. The result is being heralded as one of the year's most impressive debut albums.
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