Forgery (album)
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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]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| 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]