Usually when an artist has penned music for a variety of TV shows and video games, it means that they're quite musically versatile. As evidenced by the 2008 release, Modest Among the Living, the gentleman who goes simply by the moniker of Munk is up for a challenge of genre jumping any day of the week. Although not as daring as, say, Faith No More was back in the day, it is still pretty darn impressive how many different styles of music Munk takes in on Modest Among the Living. Case in point, the album opening "Dirty Work" comes off part pop/part Nine Inch Nails (the vocals especially sound Reznor-like), while "30 Days" is Beatlesque, "Brush Against Me" is any emo boy's dream, "Awake and Waiting" is a sweet ballad, and "Superheroes" is a Moby-like dance rocker. With popular music becoming increasingly predictable circa the early 21st century, the arrival of a "hard to pin down to a single genre" artist like Munk is certainly a welcome one.
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