Having found Monikers' 2006 EP Eat Your Young very decent (read: promising -- it was their first release), one hopes they would have stepped it up considerably for the full-length effort. It's a little disappointing to say that I largely feel the same way about Wake Up, but at least the band (fronted by former Discount guitarist Ryan Seagrist) have stuck to their formula, that of which is mostly mid-to-uptempo, raspy-voiced punk rock directly in the Lawrence Arms / Jawbreaker vein. [more]