The rapid cycling drone the introduces us to Matt Monsoor’s “Fog” is an apt introduction to a song and video like a diary entry of from the beginning of a novel about loss, wasted time and the will to find and create meaning in a world of deep uncertainty. The images of spider webs catching the dawn sunlight and of a graveyard in the early morning and a house and a town on a hill in the distance as the day begins serve as the contextual backdrop in the video so that immediately the lonely piano figure that comes in and runs through the majority of the song has a pastoral aspect that when coupled with the simple guitar line toward the end of the song lets us know this isn’t a tale of tragedy ahead but of exploration and perhaps redemption of self and forgiveness of past failings of one’s dreams. With words written by Jeff Skemp and echo plex performance by Casey Virock this song is more like a short movie or a tone poem than simply a song and even without the video it is powerfully evocative in a way resonant with the material Slint wrote for Spiderland. Watch the video for “Fog” on YouTube and follow Matt Monsoor at the links below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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