Moore Ave aim high with their defiant and uncompromosing new single and video Second Best — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The latest preview of the Ontario pop-punk band’s upcoming Wade MacNeil-produced debut album Turn Around, Second Best dates back to the first Covid lockdown, according to frontman Josh Gaudette.
“We were just riffing together one day, and the chords fell out in a jam and I started humming the melody and it came together really quickly and organically,” he explains. “For us, the track is about sticking up for yourself and raising the standard of the people you give your time to. As cliché as it may sound, I think that one’s time is very valuable, and most people will get to a point in their life where free time is sparse, and you need to guard what time you do get.”
The video for Second Best was directed by drummer Shawn McDonald, and shot in Moore Ave’s hometown of Aylmer. It was a tough shoot, Josh says, even though they were familiar with the location. “We didn’t anticipate the terrible sunburns and borderline heat stroke we all got from carrying all our gear down almost three kilometres of abandoned train tracks in the middle of one of the hottest days of the summer. In the end, we had a great shoot and made a rad video that we are all really proud of, so it was truly worth it.”
Moore Ave (formerly Moore Ave Underground) are a band that take the punk rock wave of the late ’90-’00s and turn it into a blend of melodically driven distortion. Community, empathy, and a sense of family are the pillars Moore Ave have always stood for, and in a world where these qualities are fleeting, what’s more punk rock than that?
The band includes brothers Josh, Joe and Jack Gaudette, along with brother-in-punk MacDonald. Watch the video for Second Best above, hear more from Moore Ave below, and visit them at their website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
