Sex during a girl’s uncomfortable time of the month doesn’t exactly come to mind when one thinks of indie music, unless you’re Brendon Saarinen.

Indeed, the cavalier youth of the songwriter, guitarist and vocalist makes up much of the inspiration behind the post-rock outfit he spearheads, Still Life Still. You’ll see this for yourself should you attend their release show at the Horseshoe Tavern on August 28. Girls Come Too, the band’s debut album dropping three days before that, fuses the fun of cock rock with intelligent and candid musings, collecting diary-like entries set to tight, high-tempo rhythms and growling, layered guitar loops.

“It’s a very personal album. I couldn’t write about anything else even if I tried,” says Saarinen, 24. “Yeah, there is a lot of sex in it. It’s a crazy, intimate experience, I think most people would agree. That’s why I write about it.”

Though Girls Come Too is the debut, some of the tracks are several years old – evidence of a project that was years in the making. The quintet of Saarinen, Derek Paulin, Eric Young, and Aaron and Josh Romaniuk, has existed in one form or another for the past 11 years. The plucky five grew up in East York with a penchant for making noise. Rolling the dice, the members of Still Life Still traded in schooling for rocking out.

Fortune really did favour the bold in this case: The band began to turn heads at the Drake Hotel’s Elvis Mondays and in 2008 was quickly snapped up by Broken Social Scenester Kevin Drew under his Arts&Crafts label. Still Life Still then headed into the studio to record. What was supposed to be a succinct, three song demo ballooned into a full-length album. Still, If your tracks have been ready for years, why not?

“Well, we always hung around Arts&Crafts because we liked their stuff,” says Saarinen. “Then Kevin came to see us play at the Drake. Then we’d start getting these phone calls at our jobs, ‘So-and-so’s cancelled the gig, can you do a set?’ That sort of thing, and it went from there. It was good. We found ourselves opening up for guys like Kaiser Chiefs and the Stills. It happened pretty fast.”

More of the same for Still Life Still, then. They’re nothing if not prolific, with a U.S. stint in early September and plans to record another album within the next six months.

“We feel great. We’re ready to go mental,” Saarinen said.