Eclectic producer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Monster Rally, teams up with TV Girl on “Incredibly Blind” featuring X-Cetra. Along with the new single that vocally samples “Wasn’t There” by X-Cetra, Monster Rally shares that his tenth full-length record, Echoes of the Emerald Sands, will be released in Spring 2026 via SoundOn / Flowering Jungle. As he began working on his new record, he gave himself a straightforward set of criteria: Make something unlike anything he’d made before. For someone with tastes and an artistic history as varied as Monster Rally’s, that’s easier said than done.
Venturing into uncharted territory, the upcoming record will be Monster Rally’s first that isn’t purely instrumental. He recruited not just one or two guest vocalists, but a whole fleet of artists and industry friends to sing over his recordings. The list of collaborators includes TV Girl, Jordana, Toledo, Mei Semones, X-Cetra, Leisure, Sessa, Nella, Miles Michaud (Allah-Las), Benét, Jordann, Munya and more. Ditching the tropical, sample-based plunderphonics of his past work, he decided to record everything from scratch in his Cleveland home studio — resulting in some of the liveliest, most vivid music in Monster Rally history.
On “Incredibly Blind,” Monster Rally shared “This is one of my favorite tracks from the new record and I’m really excited to share it with the world. About a year ago I had sent a rough demo of this track to Brad (Petering) with just some drums, bass and mellotron flute loops. He came back with this idea of having X-Cetera on the track for the vocals. I had read a bit about their backstory and was definitely on board.”
Reflecting on his long history with TV Girl, he said, “TV Girl was one of the first artists I had ever done a collaboration with. Going way back to us playing shows in Echo Park to a handful of people over 12 years ago, all the way to a sold-out show with over 5,000 people when I toured with them last year.”
