Ask Moneen what kind of music they play, and they won't offer up a simple, soundbite-friendly answer. "We always get asked that, and we'd never really thought about it that much," muses frontman Kenny Bridges. "So it became a fun little game for us to come up with the most terrible tagline possible, just to confuse people. The one we came up with is 'aggressive melodic pop."

While such a description is far from terrible or confusing — Moneen's music is indeed aggressive, melodic, and poppy — it still doesn't begin to capture the myriad complexities and layers of this Toronto four-piece's unique brand of powerpunk. With influences ranging from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds to the Dillinger Escape Plan, Thingy, and Jimmy Eat World ("anything that's over the top and pushes the limits," Kenny explains), Moneen display a songwriting sophistication and technical prowess that belie their brief three-and-a-half-year existence and early-twentysomething ages. "We just can't write a quick little pop song," Kenny admits. "If we wrote two-minute songs, I don't think we'd be able to get enough good stuff into the songs. We want every song to be like a little adventure — with a beginning, a middle, and an end"

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Don't Ever Tell Locke What He Can't Do
2. If Tragedy's Appealing, Then Disaster's An Addicti
3. Bleed and Blister
4. The Day No One Needed To Know
5. This Is All Bigger Than Me
6. The Frightening Reality Of The Fact That We Will A
7. The Politics Of Living And The Shame In Dying
8. The East Has Stolen What The West May Want
9. Seasons Fade...Fevers Rage...It's A Slow Decay
10. There Are A Million Reasons For Why This May Not W
11. The Song I Swore To Never Sing