rolling emo/pop-punk/dogs on skateboards 2017

p4k gave it an 8. normally i don't care how p4k reviews an album but i just read all the those old anti-emo p4k reviews of classic albums of the genre a few weeks ago.

i doubt this is the right thread for them but maybe the only place on ilm i can admit i am really digging this Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms album which is horror punk and so somewhat related to emo/pop-punk at least to me?

I'm finally getting around to cleaning up the last few 2016 genre playlists and building out 2017. The plan was to wait to post them in a cannonball once they were all finalized but, since tangenttangent asked, here's an early shot off the forward bow for you:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Emo Thread Spotify Playlist

I'm going to try to update these quarterly and drop a note on thread to alert when I do.

the new album by the maine rules! not really emo but they were considered emo at one point? kinda third eye blind-y, which also blends into some 1975-y moments

I was just muttering "Maine Eye Blind" to myself...

I like the Rosenstock-produced Smith St Band album quite a bit

^^^^ this is good as hell

I find the dude a bit wearying over 45 mins but individually the songs are really strong, the opener in particular is such a vintage emo jam

still not sure whether Hey Violet (who i love) slots in here, since i flit back and forth on which side of the indie poptimist/Paramore dynamic they really plant their feet in

i feel like they've been posted in the rolling pop thread before but i'll allow it

the smith st band record hit #3 on the aussie charts this week, officially making them the most emo nation on the planet

Juggling the needs and schedules of three bands sounds daunting, but to hear Chris Carrabba tell it, it's a necessary part of his creativity, with each band benefiting the others. After reaching success with Dashboard Confessional in the early 2000s, he rejoined the reactivated band Further Seems Forever in 2010, and debuted the Americana and folk-influenced Twin Forks in 2013. All three bands have new albums in various stages of completion -- new Dashboard and Twin Forks albums are "pretty close to done," while a new Further Seems Forever EP is "in gestation" -- and Carrabba has been performing live with multiple bands, sometimes within days of each other.

!!!

wait, carrabba's doing another fsf release?!!!??!

god help me dashboard tickets go on sale today and i'm thinking about going again

Hey guys. I generally stay away in fear from ILM, but I was looking for some recommendations. Not much of a deep punk taste, liked it in the '90s, didn't branch out much from NOFX/Green Day/Operation Ivy/Bad Religion. 2000s pop-punk came and I was generally turned off by a lot of the bands coming out. Like some were OK, but.. in any case I'm a dilettante on this genre, mostly... bear in mind.

Was listening to an album in my iTunes library that still kills for me some reason. I haven't really heard much that hit me in just the right way called Fifth Hour Hero. (I also don't know how well known this band is, only that I discovered them right before they broke up. Some cartoonist recommended them, I think.) In particular their last EP (You Have Hurt My Business and My Reputation Too) and last album (Not Revenge... Just a Vicious Crush) are just fantastic. something about them reaches into my heart, like they jumped from a decade earlier sidestepping a lot of the style from the mid-'00s. Some shades of Japanese rock/pop from that era too, though I'm not gonna try to explain why I'm feeling it. The lead vocalist has a good style, and even the guy who sings the odd track here and there isn't bad. Crisp production, drums, angsty emotionally lyrics totally sold by by a great voice. Yet, admittedly, not super original? But there's something there, I don't know. Anyway, if anyone knows this band and/or could point me in the direction of music like it, I'd really appreciate it.

If you're curious, look up "Everything I Won't Miss" and "My Sympathies".

(I did a little research and found that they had some connection to Against Me!, appearing as background vocalists on one album and being on the same label at some point, but... that band didn't really do it for me at all, like most pop-punk bands to be honest.)

You might see if there's anything you respond to the same way here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/6IovjBTXeMtrEqJjd8vrla

Thanks! Will definitely check that out

hey Nhex!

Have you listened to Knapsack?

never heard of 'em! will give a try

just a reminder that there's a thread spotify list to explore too:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0nLJrzRAFkOIdWKDftGJLK

thanks! will check that out too

I saw rvivr tonight and they fuckin ruuuled

I'm still listening to the Sorority Noise record quite a bit. It's excellent.

my favorite record so far is mostly emo adjacent, lovely little lonely by the maine. attn: spottie if you haven't heard it

I feel like I should mention that Disperse record again on this thread after trying to pimp it on the metal thread...it's really something and might appeal to emo fans since there's some serious sonic crossover with the 1975. I don't really know how to explain them to people. "emo-adjacent" is definitely stretching it though lol. admittedly I haven' heard much straight-up emo this year that I've been into.

New Rainer Maria single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV1tDnzv5ss

Not exactly what I expected, but for a comeback single it has a nice swagger and confidence. That can only bode well for the album.

the new stuff they've played live is all really good, i dig this song for sure

not quite pop-punk but of interest to fun guitariers: the glory of Partner
https://soundcloud.com/youve-changed-records/partner-everybody-knows-1

thx Brad I'll check out the Maine record for sure.

whoa the smidley record rules

also the new manchester orchestra record seems like it's gonna rule hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaeWss85_vg

y'all were right about the sorority noise record

lmao at the way they rip off the cars on "car

I v much liked the last album but this one is a big step up. sits nicely with all the other recent crushing albums about death

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

i'm seeing sorority noise this next week!!

anyone know any of these sn openers? Forth Wanderers / The Obsessives / Shannen Moser

Forth Wanderers are good!

I hadn't figured out that Smidley is the Foxing guy...I knew there was a twinge of recognition. Neat record!

yeah it kinda sounds like the wackiest possible kevin devine record. it rocks

Incidentally I saw KD live a few weeks ago - I thought it was going to be a full band show, instead it was solo. I was a bit disappointed at first but he was great. I teared up in public like a good emo kid.

Also he mentioned we can expect another Bad Books record at...some point

yesssss

OH and imo the new Chastity Belt record counts as emo and it's *great*

lol i found that record extremely dull but chastity belt are not for me

I can definitely understand that, they're (purposely) not very dynamic, but they key into an emotional register that really works for me

http://www.spin.com/featured/best-emo-revival-albums-ranked/

list made me realize that even though i start this thread every year i don't like very many emo revival bands lol

mostly i think the best album on that list by a mile (hop along) is there under false pretenses

also that driver friendly's bury a dream is better than any album on there

missing some other obv choices some of which rated highly in our poll

i would like to go on record suggesting that modern baseball record is only half good