Monster Rally
Cleveland Ohio
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About the Artist
Monster Rally is the musical project of Cleveland-based artist Ted Feighan. Monster Rally has been a major force in the rise and popularity of tropic-tinged and mellow lo-fi production over the past ten years. Equally inspired by 90s hip-hop and 60s exotica, Monster Rally has created his own tropical world that invites the listener to come along. His signature dreamy and escapist compositions are instantly recognizable and have garnered the attention of countless fans and music critics alike, racking up over 100 million streams in the process.
With his new record Echoes of the Emerald Sands ( (out 3/27/26), Feighan decided to recruit a whole fleet of artists and friends to sing over his recordings. The list of collaborators includes TV Girl, Jordana, Toledo, Mei Semones, X-Cetra, Leisure, Sessa, Nella, Miles Michaud (Allah-Las), Benét, Jordann, Munya, and more. “After I get vocals back from an artist, the track takes on a whole new life and I get into it all over again,” Feighan says. With Echoes of the Emerald Sands, he also ditched the tropical, sample-based plunderphonics that had defined his work since Monster Rally’s 2010 inception, instead recording everything from scratch at his Cleveland home studio.
“This record is important to me mostly because I think I’ve proven to myself that I can create a body of work that I’m proud of without using samples or doing things in the ways I have done them in the past. I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to do it and I had a lot of self-doubt, but ultimately it's been a lesson in pushing through my own discomfort to find new ways of working and a different mindset. I think Echoes of the Emerald Sands shows a different side of me as an artist.”