Songs for Insomniacs 21: “Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain” by Mono and World’s End Girlfriend

Continuing the elegiac mood from “A Blessing of Tears, another odd pairing (from Japan): The thrash / postrock band Mono plus the quirk / postrock multi-instrumentalist World’s End Girlfriend. What you’re about to hear sounds nothing like either group nor like anyone else on the planet. Thom Jurek opens his AllMusic review of the album with “What the hell?”

If you can devote an hour and 14 minutes to listening with concentration to these five glacially unfolding movements (“trailers”), you may find yourself devastated and…