Golden Skies is the second studio album by American electronic musician Mono/Poly. It was released via Brainfeeder on August 26, 2014.[1][2] It features contributions from Mendee Ichikawa of Free Moral Agents, Rebekah Raff, Niki Randa, and Thundercat.[3]
Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, stating that it is "more complex, finessed, and melodic" than Mono/Poly's first studio album, Paramatma (2010).[4] Matthew Phillips of Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album 3 stars out of 5, commenting that "Golden Skies' sleek beat structures leave just enough room for the complexity of the synthesis to shine before the melody pulls away your attention."[7] Nate Patrin of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.3 of 10, writing, "The big hook on Golden Skies to pull listeners in centers around just what Mono/Poly does with well-known synthesizer sounds."[6] He added, "The record resembles a lot of recent Brainfeeder-y stuff you might've heard before, except tinkered with a bit and with a more dazed approach to the cosmic allusions of Ras G's Back on the Planet, or the euphoric disorientation of Flying Lotus' Until the Quiet Comes and Thundercat's Apocalypse."[6] Rory Foster of The Line of Best Fit gave the album a 7 out of 10, calling it "a distinctly spiritual journey, a soundtrack to the heavens, and not a bad one to boot."[5]
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