Eat Your Young
Label: Kiss of Death
Length: LP
Media: CD
Format: Album
WorkNameSort: Eat Your Young
You may know Ryan Seagrist from his half-decade as a member of South Florida semilegends Discount, or even from his more recent tenure as guitarist in New Roman Times. Perhaps you just know him as the really friendly guy at Whole Foods. Even if you don’t know him, if you have a predilection for very loud, very rough and very poppy punk rock, you should familiarize yourself with Monikers. Centered around Seagrist’s wiry chords and gravelly punk shout, Monikers started as a two-man plug-in-and-rock project with drummer Tyler Petito (ex-Kite Flying Society), but has since morphed into an ever-flexing lineup that basically includes Seagrist and whoever’s brave enough to get onstage with him. With groups like Crimpshrine and Fuel (the good Fuel, not the dumb one) namedropped as influences, it’s not surprising that these five songs sound like the entire early Lookout/New Red Archives catalog wrapped up with a ‘Busyâ?�-sounding bow that Seagrist makes all his own.
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2006.