The Salteens started Boompa Records to put out their sophomore album, Let Go Of Your Bad Days. That was 7 years ago, and since then Boompa has released a lot of other albums while the Vancouver-based band has remained largely silent. We are proud to announce the end of that irony. On May 11 Boompa Records will release the Moths EP in Canada, Japan and the USA, and digitally worldwide in advance of the long awaited Salteens LP, Grey Eyes, due out late this summer.

Amidst several attempts at completing a full length album the band was taken off task by numerous personal upheavals, artistic miss-directs, and an appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba—clearly a confusing time. Pulled together from a number of recording sessions that took place during 2007 and 2008, Moths is a document of songwriter Scott LD Walker’s angers and frustrations, resulting in a typically Salteens-like call to arms in attempt to overcome life’s hardships.

So the Salteens have grown up. It’s been 7 years, and that’s to be expected.

Despite there being a complete lack of continuity in how Moths was created, the end result is cohesive — these are protest songs. There’s a wanting for more that even runs through the ’60s AM radio harmonies and horns of “Sunnyside Street” — “life’s too short for holding out for make due.” And when Walker sings that “all we want is what you’ve got / it doesn’t matter right or not”, his dissatisfaction isn’t rooted in materialism, but in simply wanting what the generations before him had — no more, no less.

“We all want the same things that our parents had, but everything takes so much longer now that our coming of age is defined differently,” Walker explains. “We’re trying to define our place in the world and we’re a little frustrated that our lot in life isn’t what they told us it would be.”

Band mate and girlfriend Carrie Tennant tells Scott that he sounds whiny. He agrees.

Though there has been some disappointment in the ten years since the Salteens released their acclaimed debut album, Short-Term Memories, the bubbly horns, jangly guitars, and joyous harmonies are all still there. And while the kids who came to love the Salteens after watching them on Yo Gabba Gabba might listen to Moths and just want to dance, their parents will no doubt recognize the rallying cry of a generation unwilling to accept defeat.

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