Monroe Mustang from Austin (Texas) played a subdued and well-mannered folk-rock, tinged with Pink Floyd–like ecstasy and Velvet Underground–style trance. They debuted with the single Carcrash Head (Ata-Glance, 1997).

Plain Sweeping Themes For The Unprepared (Trance Syndicate, 1998) collects home recordings (from 1994 to 1998). In Waking Up the singer sinks into the hallucinatory awe of Syd Barrett, but the band moves with the boogie stride of Lou Reed. I Was Eighteen even revives the simultaneously epic and hypnotic attitude of the Modern Lovers. At times too languid, their psychedelia sometimes aims for the kind of song crafted by the Flaming Lips but instead verges on parlor pop (The Bees), and at other times adopts a martial cadence and a melodramatic tone halfway between John Lennon and David Bowie (Candidate). Elephant Sound, however, hints at a more mature future: velvety melody, western-style trumpet, and classically inclined cello combine into a small gem of counterpoint. Vinyl and TN contain touches of garage rock that could awaken the band from the torpor into which it often drifts.

The songs on The Elephant Sound (Jagjaguwar, 1999), also recorded at home (over the last three years) are catchier and sunnier, less intellectual and more psychedelic. Dee and Lie pay tribute to their idols Syd Barrett and Neil Young while staying true to the band's spleen.

De Avonden (Jagiaguwar, 2000) is a live acoustic recording.