Sputnik Monroe releases new album, "Wake the Sleeping Giant."

Based in Los Angeles since 2003, Sputnik Monroe has been entertaining audiences up and down the West Coast with their captivating live shows. Regionally distributed at Tower records and independently owned stores, this is the band’s professionally recorded follow up to their self-released EP. Produced by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, Stephen Malkmus) at Seattle’s Bear Creek Studios, the album captures Sputnik Monroe’s contemporary and creative sound. In support of radio play at respected stations such as L.A.’s Indie 103.1, the band is planning a national tour for May and June of this year.

“Sputnik's Wake the Sleeping Giant is by far one of the best releases of 2005 from either a signed or unsigned band. The production, the instrumentation, the intensity, the sweeping melodies-unreal. I am honored to have heard your music before the rest of the world knows your name-and they will.”- Skinnie Magazine


“Their debut album, Wake the Sleeping Giant, is a mammoth 10 song, 45 minute ride. It is sonically ambitious and melodicly endearing throughout. Where their long-lost brothers in The Mars Volta try to blow your mind with unintelligible soundscapes and opaque words, Sputnik Monroe draw you in with a sincere brand of working man's progressive rock. They never bore you with 15 minute self indulgent drone fests nor do they stoop down to please all with cookie cutter flavors of the month. This band has a mission, and one listen to this bold new album should help them get there.” – Decoy Music



Questions? Please contact patrick@sputnikmonroe.com