"We're a new band with a new single and we're expecting it to be a slow-build, all-summer sort of thing," says guitarist Mark Makowy rather matter-of-factly. The single "Resurrection" sounds like one of those radio-friendly sure shots. The guitars swirl hypnotically; piano notes underscore the melody; the rhythm section pushes hard; the singer sounds in control of the musical drama unfolding before him. Bassist Jeff Pearce maintains that in spite of the band's creative use of dynamics, "melody is the most important thing."

"We wrote for our first tour. We had to in order to have material to play every night," says keyboardist Kevin Young. "The record organically grew from there." The band recorded their first album Silver quickly, "in a six-hour block," says Pearce. The new one, Creature, took substantially longer.

			"Kill For You"
			"Silver"
			"Freaky Be Beautiful"

The band understood from the beginning that recording a great album would not be sufficient, and has toured incessantly since the beginning. Eventually opening for the likes of Collective Soul, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live, Hole and Metallica has enabled the band to expand their audience to the point where they've already been certified triple platinum in their native Canada.

"It was a video we made for $3,000 that really brought us attention," says Pearce. This was what led Moist to sign with EMI-Capitol in Canada and Arista in the States.

"America's an obvious place for a Canadian band to want to break as well, because we're reading a lot of American music magazines and we want to see ourselves and other Canadian bands represented in those magazines," says Makowy.

Their best moment in America so far?

"We played a bowling alley in Omaha, Nebraska," says Usher.

Why so special?