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Though the bands 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 isnt a new band: We werent trying to reinvent ourselves as much as we were trying out some things that we would have been scared of on previous records.
One wouldnt think a band thats 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 shouldnt 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 took a more simplistic route this time around to allow the songs to breathe, and to really let certain parts shine when they needed to, adds Hippy. Bridges agrees, explaining that with The World I Want To Leave Behind, the band wanted to start out simple when structuring a track letting the components work for the song and not the song for the components.
Indeed, the album is the first with drummer Steve Nunnaro, who the remaining band members cite as a significant contributor when it came to crafting these 12 songs. Its also found the band experimenting with new instruments and whos playing them. Still, this is Moneen in the shape that those whove sweated out the enthralling experience of their stage show know so well.
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