Blue Monkey is less a reinvention and more a homecoming. In 2020, Charlee Remitz put out her final pop album, admitting to a complicated love affair with pop music and leaving it in the hopes of finding something simpler. Four years later, inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's concept of "self-loss," Remitz returns as the genderless, ageless Blue Monkey, carving out a space in the folk continuum for eleven-minute debut, “Pylons,” a song about transcendence, endurance, and the fatigue of dreaming.