Alive & Amplified

For their third record, Alive & Amplified, The Mooney Suzuki teamed up with teen pop producers The Matrix, best known for penning Avril Lavigne's multi-platinum hits. Eschewing the raw, stripped-down minimalism of previous Mooney Suzuki recordings, the band, inspired by The Matrix's modern-day "wall of sound," set out to fashion an unabashedly colorful and ornate new sound: MAXIMALISM. Accustomed to completing an album in less than a week, the Mooney Suzuki spent a full four months with The Matrix in LA, exploding forth with a dense, layered, and kaleidoscopic collection of songs and sensations: an aural experience. The resulting album erupts with brand new sounds and ideas, indelibly marked by the band's patented sass and swagger.