Lead singer Care Failure is, by her own admission, a bit of a mess. A bona fide rock star, yes – if you’ve seen her perform, that much is undeniable, just a genetic fact – but she’s not the sort who is merely mastered the cosmetic arts of the calling. At the age of 22, the volatile Die Mannequin frontwoman has already weathered more pure, textbook rock ‘n’ roll experience than dozens of leather-and-tattoos poseurs twice her age. One listen to Die Mannequin’s full-length Warner Music debut, Fino + Bleed, will tell you – as visceral and honest and full-on as any art one might expect a decade of premature “hard living” to yield. To scenesters in Die Mannequin’s native Toronto, Fino + Bleed has been in the works for something like forever. And, in many respects, it has – Care was literally plucked from the streets by former EMI Publishing Canada president Michael McCarty and vice-president Barb Sedun at 17, and given the sort of time to develop within the music industry infrastructure once accorded to the likes of Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M., but is now supposedly a thing of the past.