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Released
  
November 3, 2009

Studio
  
Seattle, Washington

Artist
  
The Almost

Producer
  
Aaron Sprinkle

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Emo

Recorded
  
May 2009

Monster EP (2009)
  
Monster Monster (2009)

Release date
  
3 November 2009

Label
  
Tooth & Nail Records

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Similar
  
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Monster Monster is the second album by American rock band The Almost, released on November 3, 2009. Like the band's debut Southern Weather, Monster Monster was produced by Aaron Sprinkle. Due to the band's lack of a drummer at the time, lead singer Aaron Gillespie played drums for the record. The first single from the album is "Hands" and it was released onto radio stations October 2, 2009, and it has cracked the Top 5 on the Christian Rock charts. The third track on the album, "No I Don't," debuted on the Christian Rock chart on March 5, 2010.

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After the recording and mastering of the record, Gillespie stated, "This now feels like a real band. Everyone gave up a piece of his own agenda for the good of the final result. And that's how you end up with something special. They supplied the bricks and we built this house together." The band plans on doing a headlining tour followed by a tour where they support The Used. When speaking of touring, Gillespie noted that "[The Almost] plan on hitting it as hard as we can." Vilardi concurred with "We'd like to leave and not come back for two years."

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Track listing

All tracks written by Aaron Gillespie, Dusty Redmon, Alex Aponti and Jay Vilardi.

Personnel

The Almost
  • Aaron Gillespie – lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, banjo, keyboards, piano
  • Jay Vilardi – rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Dusty Redmon – lead guitar, vocals
  • Alex Aponte – bass
  • Joe Musten - drums
  • Additional musicians
  • John Davis - steel guitar
  • Chris Scruggs - steel guitar
  • Josiah Holland - keyboards
  • Production
  • Aaron Sprinkle - producer, guitar, vocals, keyboards
  • Zach Blackstone - assistant
  • Jordan Butcher - art direction, design
  • Mike Carr - assistant engineer
  • Matt Carter (Emery) - mixing
  • Roberto Chamorro - photography
  • Brandon Ebel - A&R, executive producer
  • Ted Jensen - mastering
  • Brian Kroll - A&R
  • Ethan Luck - photography
  • J.R. McNeely - mixing
  • Randy Nichols - management
  • Dave Powell (Emery) - drum technician
  • Melisssa Sabo - assistant
  • Rob "Just Fine" Stevenson - A&R
  • Matt Watts - assistant
  • Monster EP

    Monster EP was released on October 6, 2009, one month before the launch of Monster Monster. It was sold exclusively through retail store Hot Topic, the band's website and a tour supporting Monster Monster.

    The song "Hands" is the first single, which will include a music video, from Monster Monster and the EP to be released to radio stations. The EP packaging is a double-disc digipak, one of the discs contain the music and the other contains no data at all, but depicts the artwork that Monster Monster will have on the disc's label along with lyrics and printed track listing.

    Songs

    1Monster Monster3:21
    2Lonely Wheel3:15
    3No I Don't3:54

    References

    Monster Monster Wikipedia