rolling emo/pop-punk/bullshit/feelings about pizza 2014

new modern baseball is kind of a blast, no idea how long i'll be feeling it, lead singer's voice is both sort of charming and extremely limited, the tracks that flirt with a future in alt-country are pretty encouraging though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEGTkGGMAxo

i've also heard the new fireworks record and it's the best album in the world

crap, was hoping this thread was actually about pizza

FP

modern baseball record had a lyric about pizza so i went with it, feel free to talk pizza

the new we are the in crowd record is streaming at uh mtv, and it sounds pretty good! kinda boilerplate pop-punk elevated by modern pop production http://www.mtv.com/artists/we-are-the-in-crowd/

they released one of my favorite pop-punk singles last year "the best thing (that never happened)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFqtasnu7y8

just learned pizza italia in the financial district closed down, goodbye awesome grandma slice :(

so Driver Friendly's new album is still mysteriously on hold/TBA??

yeah no idea what hopeless are doing with that

speaking of hopeless i love the new taking back sunday song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAaMMlRZiU

So I've been a little hesitant on the whole emo revival thing for a variety of reasons, one of which was the 1990s/early 00s wave being something I was so invested in and I kind of wanted to leave it as a "time and place" sort of thing. I just kind of avoided it all, but I finally delved in after hearing a couple tracks of the new You Blew It! album, which weren't bad at all. Still hesitant to go much deeper though.

So is there where we also discuss the latest releases from The Pizza Underground?

the new you blew it! is pretty all right yeah!

Yeah I like it. Who else of this new wave sounds similar? I know You Blew It! has some Into It Over It connections, is that a good next step?

the into it over it record from last year is very good. a little bit mathier than the you blew it but solid

yeah new fireworks song!

https://soundcloud.com/triplecrownrecords/fireworks-glowingcrosses

i love this record so much

good stuff

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a1570207516_2.jpg

here's a record i nearly never listened to bc the band name and album title are hideous (and i have a pretty high threshold) and a bunch of people who are about the world is are also about this album (and i've never cooled on a band as hard as i've cooled on the world is)

but it's pretty good! gorgeous, expansive songs that are also a pile of hooks! basically the ideal for me!

http://tinyengines.bandcamp.com/album/home-like-noplace-is-there

and that hotelier record is streaming on pitchfork advance http://pitchfork.com/advance/353-home-like-noplace-is-there/

hah i was looking for the thread to talk about this, and emo revival stuff in general. just trying to work out my feelings because i would have liked this record a lot 10 or 11 years ago and the fact that it literally could have been made 10 or 11 years ago is just....really confusing

just trying to work out my feelings

You've come to the right thread

hahah ikr?

like....the song abt the dog on this is really close to just being embarrassing but it's also pretty well done?

good thread title btwq

by the way qool

the newish iron chic (2013 i guess) is so fuckin good, guys.

think the new manchester orchestra record is going to be incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7o6ZJ2GJzo

https://soundcloud.com/manchesterorchestra/every-stone

TMC: What’s the story behind the Manchester Orchestra name?

Andy: I really like The Smiths.

jfc

do +/- Plus/Minus count as emo? vocals aren't quite in the emo register but it's a little mathy with some twinkly bits in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laVJw9Q_a3I

this new album is a pleasant surprise

I don't know if Skaters belongs here musically, but I did enjoy their NYC pizza crawl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkPQ3JfoIQ

here's a record i nearly never listened to bc the band name and album title are hideous

Pitchfork gave it an 8.2 today! I agree that the band name and title are wretched. Really like the tracks they're streaming on the site though.

it's a fantastic record

soooooo psyched for the new taking back sunday record http://www.takingbacksunday.com/stood-a-chance/

haha and i think the new taking back sunday is pretty remarkable, it's streaming at amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_385069022_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1002343191&tag=smarturl-20

new Manchester Orchestra album streaming:
https://soundcloud.com/lomavistarecordings/sets/cope-manchester-orchestra/s-0zdB5

yuhhhhh

loving it so fars

"the ocean" lives up to the idea of a manchester orchestra song called "the ocean"

had some okay pizza yesterday. wasted calories on something not worth it. feel like listening to emo/pop punk/bullshit now

yeah on first listen cope >>>>>>> simple math

nastiest most harrowing guitar tone i've heard in a while

the Ocean is a good one. otm about this guitar tone.

fireworks record is streaming!

http://www.redbull.com/us/en/music/stories/1331640166553/fireworks-oh-common-life-album-premiere

TAKING BACK SUNDAY ALBUM REALLY HITTING THE SPOT ON 1ST LISTEN

IT'S SO GOOD

also why is that guitar in "top notch" the best sound ever made it is so addicting, can't wait to get into that album as well!

think i'm gonna make cope its own thread

'Top Notch' is so good. Into this Taking Back Sunday album too. Havent checked out Fireworks yet.

i'm getting used to my skin but it doesn't. fit. right. i share my name with a stranger all. my. life.

this fireworks record >>>>

been bored all day with the tunes i have been spinning.

then this arrived in my inbox.

https://soundcloud.com/thoughtbeneathfilm/if-i-could-fix-you-radio-edit

day sorted.

i am kind of obsessed with this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApViclBGm8c

TAKING BACK SUNDAY ALBUM REALLY HITTING THE SPOT ON 1ST LISTEN

― uberweiss, Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:47 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IT'S SO GOOD

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:11 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, I have a LOT of time for TBS, but I thought this new one started off really great but fell off hard in the second half.

jon! i thought the same thing! but then! it grew on me! like a lot!

the newish iron chic (2013 i guess) is so fuckin good, guys.

― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly

RVIVR's "Goodbyes" definitely closing out my year-end mix

after a few listens i really love the new jazz june record (who knew) http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-jazz-june-after-the-earthquake-album-stream

also rainer maria reunited??!?!!?!!!!!?????!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?????!?!?!?!!!!!!! playing bowery on nye

I last saw them play at Bowery Ballroom with Ted Leo and Cave In. Must have been 1999? Totally all over the place bill that worked really well.

http://instagram.com/p/vb_TkeDiCT/

as a person who'll always have a place in my music heart for brand new, MCR, thursday, jimmy eat world, some fall out boy back in the day & also got into the genre roots stuff like jawbox, rites of spring, texas is the reason, etc. etc...i find it odd that i can't really latch onto much of the "emo revival" stuff. just doesn't do it for me - like i dont like TWIABP or balance & composure or the hotelier or into it. over it. that much. also the frontperson of TWIABP threw shade at MCR in an interview, so i obvs have a vendetta against him for LIFE

exceptions have been dads & joyce manor - those are all good. recommendations for stuff in that vein worth checking out?

sounds like you were not necessarily into the midwestern brand of emo that a lot of this revival "twinkle" stuff traces back to

have you tried Dikembe? I liked some stuff from their new album this year

maybe also Crash of Rhinos

have not heard of either, will try.

i mean i've tried braid and mineral and promise ring & liked bits and pieces from either but i guess it didn't stick, although jimmy eat world comes from that scene to some extent and i like them. and for all the "mainstream/breakthrough" emo bands i listed, i also was either bored by or truly disliked saves the day, senses fail, most taking back sunday, dashboard confessional and whatnot.

*from all

man that hotelier record is still prob my top "emo revival" release of the year, idk the melodies just grow so naturally out of each other and are so powerful. joyce manor is also the best

if you have a lot of love for jimmy eat world you might like the driver friendly record that came out this year or all of their records really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDgG6T4IpI

i'm also a big fan of the jazz june record that came out this year but it's them doing really straightforward pop-rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_lufZKvJtM

imo a bunch of the emo revival bands just aren't that interesting, including TWIABP, Into It, Modern Baseball, etc. You Blew It's OK.

But The Hotelier and Joyce Manor are both *awesome* ... or at least their 2014 records are.

xpost i dig that Driver Friendly record, too

between last year's rolling emo thread and this one i've developed a real loathing for the world is

i think the hotelier have great instrumentation, his voice is jussssttttttttt beyond the threshold of reediness/whininess for me though, idk. i know, i know, its not a thing to complain about in this genre/subgenre/movement/thing, but i find it hard to take sometimes. i will give it another go-round.

will check out this driver friendly band, appreciate all the tips. (also this is one of the better thread names i've encountered)

yeah i dont get the TWIABP hype at all it's half-assed explosions in the sky with choruses and inscrutable-ass lyrics, does sound pretty tho

modern baseball i thought was aight

TWIABP released an album or EP or something this year that appeared to be largely spoken word and it was pretty cringeworthy based on the couple of minutes I could stand to listen to it

What band rn is doing the closest thing to Coheed and Cambria

Is there really a band called modern baseball & are they just copying American Football

coheed sucks and yes there is and no they are not because american football is fucking boring.

in keeping secrets + second stage turbine do not suck

coheed does NOT suck but i can't think of a band like them out there right now

also imo the afterman records were a real return to form for coheed

also, it's kind of all over this thread already, but RVIVR is amazing

sucks is a strong word. my bad. just not my thing, mostly because of prob the most unlistenable voice aside from that simple plan dude. but yea, to their credit what they did was pretty original at the time, sonically.

Hotelier guy's voice is certainly on the line of too reedy/whiny, but I dunno ... it works for me. I guess he stays just on the right side of the line.

But the real draw on HOME LIKE NOPLACE IS THERE, for me, are the guitars. they just feel so ... i dunno, for lack of a better word: epic. i should explain that better, but am swamped right now ... but as just one example, the way the main guitar riff comes to life at :43 of "Among the Wildflowers" (and just the beautiful melodic arc of that little riff in general) is some life-affirming shit, man.

kinda got into the recent coheed album, not all of it but some of it worked well.

But The Hotelier and Joyce Manor are both *awesome* ... or at least their 2014 records are.

Joyce Manor's s/t debut is a bit of a modern classic imo, their 2nd one is good too but it's absurdly skimpy even by their standards

closer to thrice than coheed but i guess one of my answers to the question upthread is "circa survive," whose new record is excellent and streaming on youtube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH22-xSMERQqUX3ogTqRNTqgzOZbdoxeW

i remember when c&c/thrice and thursday were touring together - it was like the nirvana/pearl jam/soundgarden tour for emo kids!

I completely get why people don't like them, and On the Impossible Past did nothing for me at all, but I have been listening to the Menzingers' Rented World an awful lot lately. There's something satisfying about how basic and stubbornly unclever the lyrics are, especially in conjunction with the music, which is very polished and streamlined but still convincingly gloomy. Just the right amount of melodrama. Maybe it's just a symptom of the constant blah downer feeling that being back in school after a prolonged absence brings out.

i've never been able to get into their albums but i loved them when they opened for gaslight anthem

lots of energy

they're great live and dull on record

newish iron chic track from a split 7"

https://soundcloud.com/noisey/iron-chic-lesprit-de-lescalier

Not sure if they fit here, but I'm digging the new Two Inch Astronaut record, kinda reminds me of the Don Vail record from a few years back. Pleaantly knotty and 90s.

i fucking love two inch astronaut

I guess this is gonna be my best chance to link to a track from the don vail album, since there's no reason that anyone who wasn't paying strict attn to Cdn college rock in the late 00s would have ever heard it - falls into that not-indie/not-emo hinterland for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA37a3dJ92k

the following thought is apropos of nothing rly but i need a safe space to shout it:

WHY THE FUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK WON'T THERE BE A NEW BRAND NEW ALBUM THERE'D SRSLY BE NO TIME BETTER THAN RIGHT NOW :[ :[ :[

at least they seem to be recording?

did they post about it or something? i didn't hear about this at all

yeah they've been teasing weird things on their website. they've been recording for a few months

whoaoaoaoaa the new funeral for a friend stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBlMfP21aI

album out in january

Nice

so are we doing a 2015 thread for this stuff or just keep going here?

definitely feels like this stuff is prominent enough rn to warrant its own thread. it certainly is in my life.

haven't found anything neat to start the new thread off with!

the year kicked off w/ a bang with the new fall out boy album, but they obviously have their own thread.

ok, fair enough! as long as we're sticking with it.

full iron chic/low culture split streaming here: http://www.avclub.com/article/stream-all-iron-chic-and-low-cultures-split-ep-213851

hell ya