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MONEEN - THE WORLD I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND
MONEEN - THE WORLD I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND
VÖ: 29.01.2010
Label/Vertrieb: Dine alone/ Soulfood Music
Online/Presse Promotion
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, Bridges, bassist Erik Hughes, guitarist/vocalist Chris “Hippy” Hughes, and new drummer Steve Nunnaro have slightly shifted their take on songwriting this time out.
"We enjoy writing music that makes us want to jump off the walls and roll around on the ground – while still maintaining a song’s integrity, of course,” offers bassist Hughes of his band’s general take on music making. Indeed, this has been the template for the band’s writing ever since forming in 1999 and dropping the Smaller Chairs For The Early 1900s EP, a release that would introduce the band’s shimming guitar interplay and passionate, personal lyricism to the world. Subsequent records, including 2003’s Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now? and 2006’s The Red Tree, have seen a continual refinement of the band’s writing and wordplay, this effort being no exception.
