Monster Monster is the second album by American rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band The Almost

The Almost

The Almost is an American alternative rock band from Clearwater, Florida, formed in 2005, and is most notable for being the side project of former Underoath drummer, Aaron Gillespie.-History:...

, released on November 3, 2009. Like the band's debut Southern Weather

Southern Weather

Southern Weather is the debut album by former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie's solo-project, The Almost. It was released on April 3, 2007. The whole album was previewed on The Almost's MySpace page. The full album leaked onto the Internet on March 26....

, Monster Monster was produced by Aaron Sprinkle

Aaron Sprinkle

Aaron Sprinkle is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington.-Career:His career in music began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla. BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums . Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played...

. Due to the band's lack of a drummer at the time, lead singer Aaron Gillespie

Aaron Gillespie

Aaron Roderick Gillespie is an American musician, best known for being the former drummer and clean vocalist for the metalcore band Underoath, and the current lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band The Almost...

 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.

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

The Used

The Used is an American rock band from Orem, Utah. The band was founded in 2001 and signed to Reprise Records the same year. They rose to fame in June 2002 after releasing their self-titled debut album. They followed up with their second album, In Love and Death, in September 2004 and their third...

. 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."

Track listing

Personnel

The Almost

• Aaron Gillespie
  Aaron Gillespie
  Aaron Roderick Gillespie is an American musician, best known for being the former drummer and clean vocalist for the metalcore band Underoath, and the current lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band The Almost...
  
   – Lead vocals, drums, percussion, rhythm guitar, banjo, keyboards, piano
• Jay Vilardi - Rhythm guitar, vocals
• Dusty Redmon
  Dusty Redmon
  Dustin Wesley Redmon is an American guitarist primarily known for playing in Alternative rock band The Almost and former guitarist and songwriter for Beloved and Dead Poetic...
  
   - Lead guitar, vocals
• Alex Aponte - Bass

Production

• Produced by Aaron Sprinkle
  Aaron Sprinkle
  Aaron Sprinkle is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington.-Career:His career in music began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla. BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums . Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played...