Willard has been played on NTS shows including Black Impulse, with Monotony first played on 18 September 2014.

Willard was a music group from Seattle, Washington. Formed around 1989, they are acknowledged to be part of the grunge movement of the 80's-90's. They never quite broke out of the underground scene. Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop took guitarist Mark Shropshire aka "Mark Spiders" out to lunch and told him they were "looking for a touring machine". Willard passed on Sub Pop's advances to avoid the "Grunge Bandwagon"[citation needed].

Jeff Gilbert and Tad Doyle were instrumental in their first record deal which resulted in their one and…