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The Courier Mail Saturday August 23 2008
Eastern experience shapes writer's vision
"Phil Monsour has delivered the most passionate album of his career.....The Empire's New Clothes shows traces of his interest in folk and world music but also rocks with amp-rattling intensity on songs like the blazing One Step and the anthemic Sing Your Song".

Rave Magazine August 19 2008
Empire Records(complete article)
SBS World View program Mon, June 02 2008
World View highlights Monday
(pod cast)
Green Left Weekly May 31 2008
Substituting anger for despair
(complete article)

Time off May 21 2008
CD release the empire's new clothes

(complete article)

City South News May 22 2008
CD release the empire's new clothes

The Courier Mail Thursday June 8 2006
Monsour Back on song about peace

Green Left Weekly May 5 2004
Singing through the silence
(complete article)

Weekend The Courier Mail Saturday December 4 1999
Sounds

Scene Magazine 01-12-1999
Popproperly Still Poppin’ back and forth
“1998 saw the band returning to Holland, Belgium and Germany to perform at a range of festivals and clubs and promote Faint Blue Glow, which sold out by the end of the tour.”

Rave Magazine December 1st – 7th 1999
The Ice Men And Women Cometh
“There’s also a strong sense of the much maligned classic “Brisbane “ acoustic sound, a pop sensibility filtered of the genre’s more extreme inanities, with a focus on effecting lyrics.”

Time off Nov 10 – 16 1999
Taking Brisbane to the World
“Popproperly’s sound is a melding of styles that sees rock elements coming face to face with more traditional folk styling's.”

Pulse The Courier Mail Friday November 5 1999
“Black and white Rainbow, for instance is a fine tune that would have done credit to the late Go Betweens.”

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