Without Love CS & CD

The Mona Reels - Without Love: the school project that became a cinematic pop masterpiece Internationally renowned underground rock n' roll drummer Peter David Connelly (aka The Mona Reels) set out to record an album for school credit at Olympia, WA’s famously unstructured The Evergreen State College. The whole idea was to utilize the school's open curriculum and vast resources towards an artistic end, just as members of Sleater-Kinney, Real Estate, Steve Fisk, Mirah and even Macklemore had done. It didn't exactly work out that way. The March 2020 campus shutdown meant the former Bangs/Rik & The Pigs member would have to make a choice: DIY or quit. Easy decision. Instead of a state-of-the-art studio, the multi-instrumentalist found himself recording on a portable Tascam in the back room of a used clothing store. Rather than a concert piano, he spent countless hours sitting at the bright red 1916 upright in his apartment, working and reworking verses and chord changes. The warmth o