West Midland four-piece Monday Nights blend melodic rhythm parts, with soaring vocal parts behind a tight back beat. Hailing from the middle of the country in Rugby, Warwickshire, Jacob (lead vocals, guitar) and Ali (drums) established the group in January 2020. After embarking on some brief live shows before the pandemic hit, the band took the lockdown to focus on writing and recording music which led to finding their sound. After the release of Flight in summer of 2020 and over the next year, the band continued to write and record more developed styles of songs with deeper meanings and more intricate instrumentation.
It’s a very different approach to how we normally write our music as it’s pretty gothic in tone. Based on Oscar Wilde’s classic novel of the same name, Dorian Gray is a dark-synth pop track about a co-dependent connection where self-sacrifice protects the other from being seen as a monster. The beauty of the song is it can be re-interpreted as a broken bond between two people where one acts as a martyr to protect the other’s reputation. It was inspired by the aftermath of a relationship where everything was one-sided and unfair but it was inescapable because of a sense of obligation.