antiMusic?'s Morley Seaver spoke to guitarist Danny Marino of Montreal?'s THE AGONIST to talk about the band?'s new CD. The following i?s an excerpt from the interview:

antiMusic: Is there any particular story behind the title, ?Lullabies For The Dormant Mind??

Danny: "Basically, all of Alissa?'s lyrics are sort of meant to provoke you to think out of the box or think for yourself and not just accept everything as it is portrayed to you from the media, any source whether it be media or education or from your friends or your parents. Always question everything for yourself and make sure you believe it because you actually believe it and not just because someone else is telling you to. So it?s sort of like the dormant mind is someone who is ignorant and doesn?t question or reflect on things for themselves. And basically the songs are the lullabies. And I think it?s kind of a play on words because lullabies are something that actually put you to sleep rather than wakes you up so that?s kind of the pun there."

antiMusic: Tell us how you approached writing Lullabies For The Dormant Mind. Did you want to do anything differently than Once Only Imagined?

Danny: "Yes, basically it started as an unconscious effort and then once we had heard the songs that were coming out, we noticed there was like a difference there. Then after a few songs were done, we were like, ?'Let?s try and work with this style a little bit more and go towards it'.? Basically some of the songs were written ad lib. Some of the songs, before even touring Once Only Imagined are pretty old. They didn?t make Once Only Imagined just cuz they weren?t done in time."

You can read the whole interview here.

The Agonist recently posted a live video montage, set to the song 'Birds Elope With the Sun' from their new album, Lullabies For The Dormant Mind. Check it out below.