| Forgery | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | I.R.S. [1] | |||
| Producer | Dan Fredman | |||
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Forgery is an album by the American band Monks of Doom, released in 1992. [2] [3] It was the band's first album to be distributed by a major label, and their second after the breakup of the members' former band, Camper Van Beethoven. [4] [5] Monks of Doom supported the album with a North American tour. [6]
A loose concept album about fabrication and deception, Forgery was produced by Dan Fredman. [7] [8] [9] "Tanguedia" and its reprise are tributes to the Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla. [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| Chicago Tribune | [11] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [1] |
| The Press of Atlantic City | [12] |
Trouser Press wrote that "it's a tight and cleanly played record but, as with the Monks' entire oeuvre, the literate songs and sounds come too often from the head and too rarely from the heart." [5] Guitar Player deemed the album "modern psychedelia for the smart drug generation." [13] The Province considered the album's songs to be "projections of a modern, unfussy but subtly complex expression of progressive-rock." [14] The Chicago Tribune concluded that Forgery "is something indulgent and bloodless, with bassist Victor Krummenacher delivering crypto-important metaphors that fail to touch any nerves." [11]
Stereo Review called it "pretentious undergrad rock reminiscent of Camper at its most terminally twee." [15] The Milwaukee Journal praised the album's first track, "Flint Jack", describing it as "a ska beat rumbling in slow motion under some spry, acrobatic guitar sprints." [16] The Philadelphia Daily News declared that "Forgery is one pop product that dares to be art and actually succeeds." [17] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch stated that Monks of Doom have "once again abandoned standard rock decorum to explore new music worlds via thrashing guitar leads, primitive synthesizers and acoustic guitars, and rippling syncopations." [18]
AllMusic wrote that the album combines "the quirky, off-kilter elements of Camper with a more streamlined, straightforward rocking approach." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Flint Jack" | |
| 2. | "Flow" | |
| 3. | "Tanguedia (For Astor Piazzolla)" | |
| 4. | "Virtual Lover" | |
| 5. | "Queen of Fortune" | |
| 6. | "Dust" | |
| 7. | "What Does a Man Require?" | |
| 8. | "A.O.A." | |
| 9. | "Cigarette Man (Cast of Characters)" | |
| 10. | "Off on a Comet" | |
| 11. | "Tanguedia (Reprise)" | |
| 12. | "Chaos is Not Dead" |
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