'Happy Thought School'

ZOON returns with their third album Happy Thought School.  Zoongide'ewin (aka Daniel Monkman) first emerged with Bleached Wavves (2020), introducing their brave musical aesthetic braiding shoegaze textures with Anishinaabe storytelling.  They expanded that vision on Bekka Ma’iingan (2023), foregrounding Anishinaabe language and cultural memory. On Happy Thought School, ZOON delivers their most emotionally forensic and compositionally expansive statement to date.
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Happy Thought School refracts heartbreak, relapse, racial trauma, and spiritual recalibration through a cosmic moccasin-gaze pop, shaped by memory and tape hiss. The title references their experiences at a school in East Selkirk, Manitoba, where despite its optimistic name they endured racism as one of the only Native students. Pop radio became refuge: early-2000s Top 20 hits blasting through headphones while they stood alone in a field. That contradiction joyful surface, painful sublayer defines the record’s architecture. 

Tracklisting:

1. Beautiful II 
2. One Too Many Nights (feat. Sam Jr.) 
3. Atactic
4. I Was Younger
5. Happy Thought School
6. OMNI II 
7. Olivia's Tears
8. You Can't See Me (This Low)
9. How Many More Times
10. Used and Stapled (One Last Dance)

Released Date: June 19, 2026

Catalogue No.: PAPER165