Monster Rally shares “Full Sail” video via BrooklynVegan, new album ‘Mystery Cove’ out now

Monster Rally shares “Full Sail” video via BrooklynVegan,
new album ‘Mystery Cove’ out now

VIDEO: “Full Sail”
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(Photo Credit:  Photo by Casey Catelli – click image for high-res version)

LA-based tropical beatmaker/producer Monster Rally recently released his new album ‘Mystery Cove’ via Gold Robot Records. This week he shares the video for album standout “Full Sail.” Directed by Nick Ray McCann, the video depicts bored house cat Moonball as he daydreams of a chance to compete in the French Open. Stream the video over at BrooklynVegan and on Vimeo.

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. ‘Mystery Cove,’ the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.