Reasons To Leave EP

National Student Music Competition finalists Monitor’s follow-up to the ‘Higher Than The Sky EP’ (a former Hot Press Single of the Fortnight) is full of promise. It conjures up the same dark spaces as Editors, but fills it with the clang and chime of Boy-era U2. Indeed, the sound, songs and skills displayed here reflect a band who’re eager to get out of here and fill some stadiums. With songs as compelling as ‘On The Verge’, they could yet make good on that ambition.