Now playing, “Fluorescent Sand” is the newest single, and corresponding video, from The Mon – the solo project of Urlo, vocalist/bassist of Italian Heavy-Psychedelic trio Ufomammut and co-founder of the Malleus Rock Art Lab poster art collective and the label Supernatural Cat. The song marks the latest preview of his upcoming “Songs Of Abandon” LP.
The Mon’s double-album “Embrace The Abandon“ is structured in two complementary chapters — “Songs Of Abandon” and “Songs Of Embrace” — the project depicting a journey of duality: loss and surrender on one side, acceptance and rebirth on the other. The first chapter of this journey, “Songs Of Abandon” is perhaps the most intimate and vulnerable work Urlo has ever created. Born in a moment of solitude and personal darkness, the album originated from a radical exercise: writing one song a day, for nine consecutive days, using only acoustic guitar and voice. Later, these sketches were shaped into fully realized tracks, with lyrics and subtle layers of sound – not to overwhelm, but to underline the fragile, raw atmosphere that pervades them. The result is a stripped-down, emotionally charged collection that embodies an inner search: the power of music as a tool to face abandonment, to dig into oneself, and ultimately to glimpse the possibility of an embrace.
With “Embrace The Abandon,” The Mon reaffirms itself as one of the most personal and uncompromising projects. It is a body of work that fuses vulnerability and strength, speaking directly to the listener with sincerity, leading them through shadow towards light. An intimate yet powerful sound experience, intertwining the minimalism of acoustic folk with the dark, visionary tension that has always defined Urlo’s artistic path.
Both albums were written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Urlo at The Howl, Italy, between 2023 and 2025, and as with all Supernatural Cat releases, completed with artwork by the Malleus Rock Art Collective, who also created the animated videos.
With “The Fluorescent Sand,” Urlo reveals: “This song holds the entire album within it. It starts with a series of chords on a synth, slowly giving way to guitar and a monotone voice singing of psychedelic landscapes and strange places, fluorescent sand, where everything drowns in a multicolor swirl, in the eyes of the woman I love. A song of abandonment, direct and simple.”
On the video, he adds: “The video for this piece was born with a close friend (we share many thoughts and even a musical project that’s slowly taking shape). The dark intro and psychedelic mood led us to nod to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the crow that rises from the hands holding the three nails of Songs Of Abandon, flying through imaginary worlds, losing itself inside an eye, and returning to those same hands, transforming once again into the three nails, this time crowned with a crow’s head. A journey, just like the song itself.”
Watch the official video for “The Fluorescent Sand” via the YouTube player below:
“Songs Of Abandon” will be released digitally, on CD, and in standard and limited LP pressings on November 7th. Those who preorder the limited edition of “Songs Of Abandon” will have early access to an advance preorder of “Songs Of Embrace.” Find preorders at the Supernatural Cat webshop HERE and in the USA at A Thousand Arms HERE, and find presaves HERE.
The second chapter, “Songs Of Embrace,” is an instrumental counterpart — darker, Ambient, and ritualistic — and it will be unveiled in the Spring of 2026.
Where Ufomammut projects massive, otherworldly soundscapes, The Mon offers a more vulnerable and introspective experience. The music moves through shadowy Electronic landscapes, ambient textures, and hypnotic Dark Folk, always guided by an emotional core that searches for meaning, balance, and transformation. The name The Mon evokes several layers of meaning: a contraction of “demon,” “monk,” and the Japanese word 門 (mon, meaning “gate”), a symbolic passage toward altered states of consciousness and inner truth. This duality of light and dark, sacred and profane, runs through the entire project.