We met up with Moneen ahead of their very early show at The Roadhouse. They were well up for heading over to Empire Exchange, the memorabilia shop of your dreams, to film their stirring version of ‘Hold That Sound’. They were lovely guys, and were good enough to round up some queuing fans to enjoy the performance.
Though the band’s fourth full-length offering The World I Want To Leave Behind features a number of “firsts,” Moneen vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Kenny Bridges assures us that this isn’t a new band: “We weren’t trying to reinvent ourselves as much as we were trying out some things that we would have been scared of on previous records.”
One wouldn’t think a band that’s effortlessly able to weave such a wide array of influences into their output would be “scared” to try anything. After all, Moneen has always thrived on their trademark melee of melodic components – pop that has no business being so profound; rock that shouldn’t be so ambient; punk that has no right being so delicate. While that familiar formula is what ultimately drives The World I Want To Leave Behind.
Moneen Scribblings by Andrew King
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Awesome stuff.
Radsticks!!
Just went from six to midnight!