Album Reviews

Wake Up
Monikers – Wake Up
7.0
 on
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 00:00
submitted by
Thomas
“Wake Up” indeed… what a fun album this is! The follow-up to Monikers’ 2006 EP “Eat Your Young” is filled with the kind of gritty punkrock that we all learned to love thanks to The Larry Arms and Jawbreaker.
Fronted by former Discount guitarist Ryan Seagrist, Monikers wrestle their way through 12 cuts on “Wake Up” with “Absentees” and “What Doesn’t Kill You” as the album’s definite highlights. They could use just a bit more excitement though but whether the songwriting or the relatively flat production is to blame for that, I’m not entirely sure.

All in all, it’s obvious that these guys have what it takes to write a fine bunch of songs and I’m pretty much convinced we haven’t heard the best from Monikers just yet.

Tom Dumarey
Tom Dumarey

Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.