Moonraker: ‘Fail Better’

Santa Clarita, Calif., punks Moonraker are streaming their new full-length album titled Fail Better at Punknews. Listen to the album in its entirety here, and check out the track listing below.

Fail Better recently debuted on Oct. 14 via Felony Records. The album follows the band’s 2014 EP String Theory.

In regards to Fail Better, drummer David Green said:

“We put everything we had into this record. We played until there was blood on our strings and drum heads. We sang and we yelled until we didn’t have voices. We stayed up recording into the late hours of the night after going all day until we were so tired it probably wasn’t safe to drive home. We wrote about some of the biggest hardships we’ve ever had to face. We captured the nothingness of feeling unfulfilled at a job you hate or the rejection of being let go from the same job you didn’t even like, but sorely needed. The songs are a catharsis for personal vendettas with everyone around you, and the crushing realization that none of these vendettas are reciprocated; no one’s against you, they’re just not thinking about you.

After a year of extreme jealousy and indifference, watching close friends do great things while we questioned what we were even trying to accomplish, we were able to make something we were extremely proud of. This album is a conversation with yourself in the mirror. It’s trying to explain your actions and defend yourself to yourself. Maybe your actions don’t need to be defended. Maybe you don’t need to prove anything. Maybe you don’t need to be jealous. Maybe your reflection doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Maybe it’s fine that we’re not the golden boys, ‘cause we’re the bronze boys. ‘Cause when you land on your feet, you break both your ankles and when you’re not under the microscope, no one can see you sweating.”

Fail Better track listing:

1. The Horse I Rode In On
2. Some Enchanted Evening
3. Me vs Everyone
4. Wax Bath
5. The Gangs Returned to Class and Became Honor Students
6. Sandpaper Skin
7. The Story Is Happy End
8. Bronze Boys
9. X-Rays
10. The Illusionist
11. No, I Think You’re the Tarpit
12. And the Hearse I Rode Out In