No other band channels the colour, warmth and energy of the coastal SoCal scenery as well as San Diego's Monarch. 'Two Isles', the band's debut album, is full of breezy Allman Brothers inspired guitar leads gliding effortlessly on top of gentle, and some-times not so gentle, prog-rock structures. Revealing supreme musicianship, these musicians somehow connect the dots between classic California rock, prog, pastoral pop and the vivid, expansiveness of early 1990s British shoegaze.