MONICA BROOKS - You'll Sit on This Stone LP

This recording appeared as part the Private Eyes series, documenting Australian artists working in isolation over the course of 2020.

"There’s an unguarded quality to all of Monica Brooks’s music. That is especially true of ‘Much Bigger Boxes’, the lead track from You’ll Sit On This Stone, a forthcoming LP she recorded before the Covid lockdown in Sydney’s Blue Mountains. The vast region feels like the perfect setting for the 14-minute track, a song so immense in scope and scale it could only have been conceived in one of the most ancient areas of the world.

As already proven on the exceptional Recant, the Sydney-based artist treats her piano like it’s an extension of herself. ‘Much Bigger Boxes’ is remarkable for its intimacy and vulnerability; it’s both haunting and huge, like it was recorded in an empty room so large that her fingers echo endlessly when they strike the piano. It is pure, uninhibited emotion—the sound of an artist so capable of using their instrument to express themselves that they manage to say all that they need to without uttering a single word." - Low End Theorists