Project: alphabets
Series: Album a Month — Month 6
Release date: June 2009
Archive location: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/JUNE_MONSTERS_09
Tracks: 15
Format: M4A
The first fully themed album in the alphabets catalog. Every track follows the format: [adjective/type] monster(s) [action/description]. No exceptions. June 2009 was when Colin locked into theme as an organizing principle — a practice he’d develop through the underwaters series, the POWER family, and ultimately through JANFEB11 PIRATE LIFE.
The monsters here are elemental: sunlight monsters, glitter monsters, garden monsters, tribal monsters, cave monsters, mud monsters. Each pair of words creates a small scene — “mud monsters night swamp sludge ballad” is a genre description and a movie title and a song description all at once.
“rory dog monster sleeps forever” closes the album with a name — Rory — which makes this track personal in a way the others aren’t. Whether Rory was a dog, a person, a character, or something else is unresolved.
Track 09 appears twice in the archive (both “power monsters work out fitness” and “glam monsters shift the pounce”), suggesting a revision or version conflict. Both tracks are included in the count.
Track Listing
- sunlight monsters summer hello
- glitter monsters open clouds up
- garden monsters juni pears
- sparkle monsters pulse tests
- beach monster wave pump
- walking monster thinks of buildings
- tribal monsters drum talk
9a. power monsters work out fitness (duplicate track 09)
9b. glam monsters shift the pounce (duplicate track 09) - cave monster drawing mess outs ups
- neon monsters synth talk
- mud monsters night swamp sludge ballad
- lifted monsters crunch bounce
- passion monster has freak medicines
- rory dog monster sleeps forever
Archive Notes
- Format: M4A — last M4A-format album before the switch to MP3 in September 2009
- Fully themed — the most disciplined thematic approach in the 2009 catalog
- “Juni pears” in track 3: “juni” likely a phonetic spelling of “June” in German/Nordic, or a nickname; “pears” is a recurring word across the catalog
- Track 05 missing from archive; may have been removed or unnumbered differently
- “rory dog monster” — name “Rory” unresolved; possibly a personal reference
Archive: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/JUNE_MONSTERS_09