rolling emo/pop-punk/shimmering maj9 chords 2019

revisited this new american football track today and it's astonishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XUaXk92KA

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2019/01/jeremy-enigk-ghosts-tour.jpg

also i am def going to the jeremy enigk lpr show in april

Ayyyyyy

I mentioned it on the 18 thread but the new Mineral tracks are great

You had me at "shimmering maj9 chords"

http://www.washedupemo.com/news/2019/9/radar-state-album-premiere?fbclid=IwAR2R5uQJieiEHtXAR59SDwsmdvwZ8MyqdNJwwSsgcIq3nwajsywO9tZNLLI

New radar state (members of The Anniversary and Get Up Kids) album is streaming. I liked the first singles last year.

new Pedro the Lion album streaming at NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/676403121/first-listen-pedro-the-lion-phoenix

new taking back sunday comp has: a pretty solid tracklist, and two new songs that i like a lot https://open.spotify.com/album/675XmEdhjSVOK5HT4gDQBe?si=-c-AVP4gRzmGsHTbaQ_zBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqTNdUOE1wo

pup is back, will this be the album that's as good as they are live???????

fuck i'm really into this radar state record

song's not bad, a few more moving parts than usual xp

fuck i'm really into this radar state record

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:49 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like, *really* into it

Yeah, first listen I liked it a lot, second listen I thought it was too "rock" but then third listen it was better again. Hooks and riffs are all super fun.

new song from the maine tonight, excited to see how they build on lovely little lonely which was a big surprise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7epF0DfeM

damn this is different but great?

Listening to ILX Listen: 2019

i keep coming back to the new copeland tracks, i kinda feel like that record's gonna be super special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuhLiQtLN0

lotta emo bands threatened to be the emo radiohead back in the day and i think copeland are actually doing it

copeland record is gonna be amazing i know it already.

damn, unexpected but when that beat kicks in on on your worst day >>>

anybody listen to the pedro album yet?

not yet but i've heard very good things from one of my friends/a fellow ilxor, who called it bazan's best since curse your branches

promising. im gonna go in on the npr stream today

ok yeah confirmed, the pedro album is pretty awesome, i love "powerful taboo"

and it ends incredibly strongly, last three tracks seem like the best

not really on topic but sort of on topic, but rip mary oliver, it seems beside the point to associate a song inspired by her work with her but i do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLDz4nCeAM

can confirm the pedro album sounds good. def gains steam (as much steam as a pedro album can gain) as it goes. i really liked circle k and quietest friend on first pass, and the final track for sure. i do wish his vox were recessed just a tad more in the mix. i have the same complaint with most of his solo stuff as well. im definitely going to spend more time with it when its released tomorrow.

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

holy shit

scanned the tracklist of the Copeland album and "As Above, So Alone" is an A+ emo song title

i am a huge fan of copeland in slow jam mode, wow

yesss

I'm enjoying the new Forests album. It's a little midwest, mathy sound and most of the songs end stronger than they begin.

Beyond excited for the new PUP album - The Dream is Over is one of my absolute favourite pop punk releases of the decade.

this Forests record is cool, thx tt!!

they sound like a scrappier Tiny Moving Parts

who, speaking of which, have a new double a-side out this week

They do! The TMP single is lovely as well. And Radar State is sounding wonderful!

well now that i’m really excited for the new copeland record, eat, sleep, repeat and you are my sunshine have finally clicked with me, especially the latter

the American Football song w/ Hayley Williams is out and it's lovely

also, Foxing are touring w/ Now, Now opening and I might have to shell out for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaZUVZ2F_Dc

also also, the second single from the Astronoid record has me convinced they belong in the #emodiscourse

^^ absolutely they do, probably moreso than metal

(my most anticipated album of 2019)

are Brutus too punk/metal for this thread? maybe? idc this shreds

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

ok so i really regret sleeping on oso oso? i'm working on a t*p s*cr*t emo pr*ject and just heard "reindeer games" and it's the best weezer song i've heard in decades. and i liked the white album

i now love every copeland album

copeland ranked:

ixora
you are my sunshine
in motion
eat sleep repeat
beneath medicine tree

it does not seem like such a daunting discography but each record is such a stylistic leap that you tend to dwell on 1-2 at a time

new martha!

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

still at work so haven't been able to listen yet but martha are thread deserving imo

they certainly are

martha rule and this song rules

a thread for martha - indiepop punk from pity me, durham

ok the video for the Pup single is worthy of mention

https://youtu.be/3iVrOOCYD80

copeland ranked:

ixora
you are my sunshine
in motion
eat sleep repeat
beneath medicine tree

it does not seem like such a daunting discography but each record is such a stylistic leap that you tend to dwell on 1-2 at a time

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, January 28, 2019 11:33 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

current rankings for me:

— in moton (perfect alb)
— beneath medicine tree (feels a little more of its time than the others but it's all wrapped in a sweet concept which still resonates with me)
— eat sleep repeat (beginning to stretch out a little on this one, I saw them in san antonio during this tour) title track is a top 5 copeland track for me)
— you are my sunshine (was losing touch with this type of music a bit around this time, not as deeply engrained in me but it it is great)
— ixora (admittedly need to spend more time with this, and ixora twin)

not a bad or even ok album in the discography. they havent missed yet.

in motion is def perfect

it's really tied with sunshine in that ranking

not sure what it is about ixora but it's a perfect union of consistent mood and aaron marsh's songwriting expanding to previously unmet horizons. "erase" is some kind of perfect song

if i had to guess blushing seems like it's gonna be the indoor record to ixora's outdoors

i also really love esr and bmt they're all good

lol that PUP video has so much going on, it's crazy. I admire a band that can totally eclipse their own song by overloading you with visual content!

New Martha is sounding very charming.

a friend of a friend of mine directed it so I heard the basic synopsis in advance but it was much more elaborate than I imagined

I think it’s a great video, just yeah, so elaborate! Will need a few rewatches to absorb the details.

Oh, not exactly the right thread, but I saw Swearin’ last night and they have such a lovely energy together and the whole gig felt very warm. They didn’t play Oil and Water though, which was regretful.

Swearin' fits just fine here, I think

^^^ especially since whenever irrational posts i get "irrational" stuck in my head

there's a new Partner song but it's not up to par with their best work tbh

when i saw them live last year they seemed about to make a dramatic stylistic shift that i don't know if i wanna follow them down. gonna check out the song anyway

Did you guys know about MIKE KROL?

I just found out because of this new album: https://mikekrol.bandcamp.com/album/power-chords

Listening to his first and second albums will cost you a combined 35 minutes and I highly recommend it. The most fun power pop in the world, and that's saying something.

I honestly don't know if post-hardcore belongs here or in Rolling Metal but I saw Humanities, Ultra Love, and Dark Plains on the weekend and it was a really good show. Humanities recall Fugazi but are heavier, with some good noisy moments; probably some Shotmaker in there. Dark Plains is actually comprised of former members of Shotmaker, Okara, and Metz, and get into some almost pigfuck-like territory; sometimes even some blues-rock-informed riffs and cool lead guitar bits that I sometimes wish went on longer. I was most surprised by Ultra Love, whose Arpin produced a really satisfying wash of noise and dissonance, with tuneful bits, on a Les Paul in something of a post-metal/gaze dirge context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zcVEaAua0

laura stevenson here to crush me into emotional debris

new album, the big freeze, out march 29

Yeah that's a good song that I only started and didn't finish because trying to cut down on emotional breakdowns at work.

this new free throw song kicks ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXT6dgEHuM

As brad has surely already noticed, there's a new Blood Command song. It's decent.

i didn't notice! the last album did not live up to my expectations

gonna have to make a thread for the laura stevenson record i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp430TAx-uA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhhyrmF0C_s

this song is great and the whole idea is very cute and also surprise there's eva from charly bliss

Yeah they've been killing it with their videos and the song is strong too

the new Get Up Kids song is good!

https://youtu.be/n6zluCkD1mE

it really is! pryor's on a streak this year

also i love that there's going to be a song called "lou barlow" on the record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM-2M6HO0Qg

owel continues to be incredible

Also there's a new Free Throw song out and it's delightful.

that Pitchfork feature today must have done its work cause I'm actually digging the hell out of the Wicca Phase Springs Eternal album

though the "rap" element is overstated, really it has more in common with the earlier Coma Cinema/Elvis Depressedly stuff imo

Yeah I’m not 100% sure what emo rap is supposed to be after listening to it but agree that it’s pretty great.

It's not very rappy. It's ok. A little slight to me.

there's a new Caracara song, from an EP out at month's end. How did I miss this?

https://caracaraphilly.bandcamp.com/

god bless Pup for playing national American teevee armed w/ a House of TARG shirt

https://youtu.be/Bv6_2J1A0rI

ha, that's awesome

new La Dispute is excellent on first listen, more concise and considered than the other stuff of theirs I've heard

gorgeous production/mixing, too

uh wow yeah this is p fucking incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIFzraL-XI

the la dispute is ASTOUNDING wow

argument-era fugazi vibes emanating from "rhodonite and grief"

spliced with, like, brother, sister-era mewithoutYou

Yeah, it's really good. I own Wildlife and it's solid, but this is clearly several leagues better.

I find the guy's vocal approach really interesting too, that mix of rhythmic recitation, singing, and several steps in between.

This Caracara song is real good.

I'm sort of in awe at how quickly/easily they came together and made Summer Megalith before they ever played a show

https://www.stereogum.com/2037054/caracara-better-stream-interview/franchises/interview/

god bless Pup for playing national American teevee armed w/ a House of TARG shirt

Wait, are there Houses of TARG outside Ottawa?

nope, there's just the one!

I was lucky enough to catch Mitski there when she was touring behind Bury Me at Makeout Creek.

that caracara ep is v good

their drummer sure does play

THE MAINE ALBUM IS SO GOOD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-t0K-S7FU

WOW

ok the phrase "uncomfortably numb" now has to make a third emo appearance this year, these are the rules

lmao i thought the same thing

whole album is like a long lost mid-'00s emo crossover record. i hear echoes of early panic!, infinity and folie era fall out boy, and black parade mcr all over this thing (plus their main influence for their past two records, third eye blind)

"one sunset" my goodness

laura stevenson made another album that hurt my feelings

ok it's from three years ago but i finally bought a copy of boys night out's black dogs ep and i think it's my favorite emo release of the past decade https://boysnightout.bandcamp.com/album/black-dogs

gonna check that Maine record this week.

It's a little slicker than I generally like but it's got some undeniable appeal.

it's extremely slick and i love everything about it

I will be hardpressed to remove free throw from my ears anytime soon but I do want to check out the Maine album.

new Pup is really strong, a solid step up, and even a little chopsy in places

ok my ears aren't totally nuts

I definitely get not wanting classical training, especially for a punk band.

Stefan: Yeah, I mean, Zack and Steve and Nestor all really understand music theory and they’re incredible musicians, and I’d say that understanding of music theory hasn’t hurt them creatively. But, for me, every time I’ve tried to label things with the guitar, like, “this is this chord and this is the theory behind why these chords work together” or whatever, it’s really just causing more agony than anything. I’m sure Zack’s had a different experience because he’s a classically fantastic musician, as well as a great punk musician.

Zack: I don’t know about that, but yeah it’s definitely helped because Stefan has a kind of unorthodox approach to writing songs — by that I mean writing melodically without paying super close to attention to how even the bars are or how rhythmically it fits together — so he somehow accidentally falls into these really interesting time signatures, and I guess just taking some lessons and being a nerd about music and having this so-called training has helped me a lot in adapting to that and not trying to squeeze the song into a 4/4 box, which I think we’ve accomplished really well. And at the same time, our guitar player Steve is trained, so to speak. He went to school for jazz guitar, but he sort of presents his own version of what punk is. To me — it’s a broader interpretation — but, in the grander sense, punk is sort of about going against what’s normal, whether that means you’re a great guitar player and you prefer to do something weird, or you’re expressing yourself against all odds and against a lack of training, I think those both can be punk.

That's such a nice excerpt to help explain their weird flavour of (dis)synchrony. Oh I love the new album so much! Through its darknesses it's still exhilaratingly fun. I'm seeing them on Wednesday - five days to learn all the lyrics!

yeah everything finally clicks just right. I liked the singles but some of the album tracks ("See You At Your Funeral") are even catchier and the lil curveballs ("Full Blown Meltdown" could pull a fake ID and sneak onto an ETID album) all work splendidly

pup album is good as hell

yes

This PUP gig was the apotheosis of London fans having been starved for so many months... The entire crowd was a hysterical mosh pit and PUP were deeply crowd pleasing and charming. They touted a London charity for assisting disadvantaged children into music schools that literally everyone gave money to. A small token, but the kind of offering that should be more foregrounded in gigs in general. Also they played an extra-long set to be nice. My voice is totally shredded.

that sounds awesome. I'm so glad they're having a moment, they seem like genuine folks

idk if this new J Robbins single quite belongs here but it's real nice!

https://youtu.be/IlsReo4bXsU

into the new woahnows album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjwfugTA0Hk

I saw them last night and they humoured my drunk rambling afterwards. They were great! Supporting Martha who were so exuberant and lovely.

ah awesome, was there as well!

No way! I didn’t know you were a London poster. Will say hi next time if we are at the same gig. :)

Wait a second, the Martha album's been out for two weeks already?

yeah! it's good!

just bought foxing tickets for the end of the month -- feeling pretty excited :D

the PUP show is either the next day or the day before but it's sold out :(

somehow only just learned PUP is an acronym

Lol yeah I had that same realisation.

Aaw Mordy, I’m sure they’ll do some more dates at some point. They said they’ve just started touring for two years or something crazy.

yeah i think they're actually coming back to philly later in the year

oh wow that Martha record *is* great, on the jangle/twee end of the emo spectrum and so, so charming

also want to plug the new Mannequin Pussy single which is fucking great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo_p3GwoHXI

new get up kids album is shaping up to be a banger

Opening sounds like Reggie tbh

it pains me that Drug Church are playing here but only as fourth-billed(!) on the Movements gig. I'm listening to their album now and there's nothing special about it.

new Bad Books album, two tracks out

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bad-books-kevin-devine-manchester-orchestra-announce-lp-share-2-songs/

congratulations to the get up kids for releasing an incredible album in 2019

agreed. played through once so far and have been loving it. I still think I like the Radar State album a bit more

Seeing Spanish Love Songs tonight! I had forgotten how great their album from last year is.

The first support - Save Face - were excellent. Like so energetic and positive. Checking out their 2018 album now and it holds up.

The Radar State album has grown to be one of my favourites this year, but I am yet to hear new Get Up Kids. Waiting for a sunny day.

new oso oso record in august

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KJ6etywU8

new Appleseed Cast in June!!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-appleseed-cast-releasing-first-album-in-6-years-listen-to-time-the-destroyer/

hell yes

they were amazing opening up for mewithoutyou and cursive

I'm so mad that tour didn't come here

dude the moment @ 2:35ish of that Oso Oso song gave me chills

oh they played that new appleseed cast song during their set and it was a huge highlight. i love it. there's definitely going to be a song on the record that splits the difference between post-hardcore and motorik

immense tune. the Oso Oso is nice as well.

hell yes

― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Thursday, May 23, 2019 11:16 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from Rolling Metal:

does this go here or emo thread

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/42

― alpine static, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:30 AM (seven minutes ago)

yes

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:31 AM (six minutes ago)

haha

― alpine static, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:38 AM (0 seconds ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTj6_2HZoaE

i have no idea if pronoun fit in this thread but they are definitely me-core, imagine a bunch of synth poppy jimmy eat world songs

this record was done a sincere disservice by its pf*rk review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEz23G0oaTI

oh wow this is the best record ever

new Bad Books is out and, of course, lovely. a lot of textures in common with the last Manchester Orchestra (to the extent that I'm wondering if they shared a producer)

hey uh who here likes prog

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

brad if you like this you really have to hear that last Caligula's Horse record

lots to like about the Remo Drive album

https://remodrive.bandcamp.com/album/natural-everyday-degradation

kudos to p4k. New Mannequin Pussy indeed sounds very good!

their last album was sick and "Drunk II" is fantastic. looking forward to this

soundcloud compression is brutal but this is the new appleseed cast track that blew my mind when i saw them: https://soundcloud.com/graveface/the-appleseed-cast-the-journey

motorik emo (motoremo?) is here

oh jeez obviously "emotorik" is a thousand times better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPhoTzKS4

oh that Mannequin Pussy album really really rules

agreed

I am obsessed with this Girl Friday song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2j4jD2kDA0

https://weatherornot.bandcamp.com/album/come-in

This Weatherday album is insanely good.

New Jeff! http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jeff-rosenstock-shares-monday-at-the-beach/ Hopefully a new album will follow.

my favorite band microwave are putting out a new record on september 13th called death is a warm blanket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBhz1c-UonY

i have already heard the record. it's their best. would readily compare it to some canonical br*nd n*w lps

https://hunnytheband.bandcamp.com/album/yes-yes-yes-yes-yes

(also released by epitaph apparently)

these rock children seem quite callow and exactly zero percent of the music seems original yet i find that that does not matter AT ALL at the moment

Just caught up on everything itt. I loved the pronoun album and the new Remo Drive (not sure why everyone's hating on it so much?). I had listened to a random track on that Thank You Scientist album and assumed it wasn't for me, so I'm grateful to have revisited it. When it hits, it's so good.

I've got to rep for this Weatherday album again because it is start to finish incredible and has the best album art of the year and is possibly even album of the year. The rawest, loudest lo-fi emo. It's so inventive and goes so hard - just listen to the first ten seconds of the album! Below is one of the shorter songs as a sample of just how awesome this album can be, but the real highlight is the 14-minute track at the heart of it.

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

While I'm here, I've got to also recommend the equally difficult to categorise and wonderful Glass Beach. This is a bit sparklier sounding... A bit like if Hellogoodbye had been heavier and into prog and insane time signatures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R4JcZbDvy8

Also the new Prince Daddy and the Hyena is wild if you like stuff like New Found Glory at their best and PUP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1hMwn5tpc

also into the weatherday album, has some definite elverum vibes to it

i should say over here: i started a thread for oso oso in celebration of his incredible album coming out Friday

they don't 100 percent fit here but i love the new field mouse album, kinda hits a spot that sounds like a dreamier beths

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

While I'm here, I've got to also recommend the equally difficult to categorise and wonderful Glass Beach

whoa what the fuck is this record

it's like Bill Wurtz meets Hotelier or something!

banging album, cold weather is one of my fav tracks of the year

I think the visitors of this thread would love Peaer's A Healthy Earth, which has a loose, jazzy, lush feel, Albinian dynamic range and wonderfully idiosyncratic songs

man i tried that Glass Beach record and i didn't get it

xp - I read that as Albanian dynamic range

Digging the Glass beach. Thanks for the rec. Reminds me a lot of The Brave Little Abacus but with more video game music influence.

the more time i spend with it the more i think the glass beach album is amazing

oh and this reminds me i need to check out the peaer record

should we make a thread for the glass beach it feels great enough to break away from the mothership

I was low on what I need to not live in constant agony in this world that wants to kill me in a million different tiny ways

Yesss do it!!

Whoa bad xp sorry!

ahahaha

morbid lol

I finally figured out what Glass Beach reminds me of - the second Paper Airplanes record. (the Glass Beach is way more unhinged and ambitious tho)

https://paperairplanes.bandcamp.com/album/scandal-scandal-scandal-down-in-the-wheat-field

idek what Turnover count as anymore but both of their new tunes are chill and lovely, seems a shame it didn't come out in time for summer

lastly idk how I missed that there's a new Tiny Moving Parts out Friday and they've released three excellent advance tracks? nothing really new but no one else writes concise hooky math-emo quite like them

aaand brad was not lying about the Microwave album. it's seriously good

the TMP is also good but in a more "on par" kinda way (nothing wrong with that)

yes the microwave is a scorcher

Can't stop listening to Modern Baseball's complete discography these past few days. They were such a good band, I really miss them.

While I'm here, I've got to also recommend the equally difficult to categorise and wonderful Glass Beach

whoa what the fuck is this record

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, August 26, 2019 2:25 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've been absolutely obsessed w this record ty tt+Brad

These guys are putting Toulouse, France on the pop-punk map:

https://nightwatcherspunk.bandcamp.com/album/la-paix-ou-le-sable

been jamming this very emo black metal record my pal put me on to

https://sadnessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-veins

I wanted to like that Microwave album a lot because it reminds me of so many bands and sounds that i love, but couldn't fully get into it. I've been obsessed with the Glass Beach album since mentioned in here. Jesus. seem like really nice people too. got back to me after I said some nice things on instagram and they were lovely. Hope they come to ny.

it might have been a mistake to instinctively skip last year's Cursive record cause the advance tracks from the new one are sounding solid

holy crap this glass beach album is so balls-to-the-wall, it's like if los campesinos wrote the soundtrack to la la land

the new 95-minute Jeff Rosenstock record gives you a very good sense of their show right down to the anti-harassment warning, even if I'm mad "Get Old Forever" somehow didn't make the cut

*live record, sorry if that made anyone too excited lol

new 95-minute Jeff Rosenstock record wait what?... Aw shit yes, I'll be in on this today

i also just discovered the glass beach record lol

weird coincidence as I was just relistening. great album!!

Has anyone else tried the Weatherday album? Strong Brave Little Abacus vibes, but much faster and brighter. It takes roughly two seconds to begin digging the album a lot, and although it doesn't sustain that heart-in-stomach feeling all the way through, there are some insane highs.

Great Grandpa love: here or the indiepop/jangle thread?

... it seems my favorite pop-punk band fireworks has reunited. you can hear a new song after filling out the short silly survey on this page https://www.higherlonelypower.com/

hoo boy, that new song is really something

AAAAAHHHHHHH

This song is wild holy shit

Great Grandpa love: here or the indiepop/jangle thread?

― alpine static, Friday, October 25, 2019 6:14 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

good question. haven't listened to the full album yet, but the singles were all excellent.

i'm obsessed with the album. it gives me goosebumps.

i thought Plastic Cough was OK, but this one is a huge leap forward (pardon the cliche)

Oh wow, neither of you were lying about this Great Grandpa album.

you can listen to fireworks' "demitasse" outside of that weird webpage here: https://fireworksmi.bandcamp.com/

new album higher lonely power out in 2020

Very exciting

i can't believe two of my favorite bands reunited in the span of a week

oh wow this great grandpa album! the band name really put it off but i finally just put it on and i'm so glad i did!

I hesitate to make the comparison but it makes me think of a slightly more extroverted/rockin' Big Thief

Rosenstock + Stevenson have a Neil Young covers EP out! For some reason!

Rosenstock + Stevenson are Dead, Man.

Stereogum interviews/profiles Glass Beach:

https://www.stereogum.com/2064287/glass-beach-interview-2019/franchises/interview/

they got signed to run for cover! i'm gonna make that glass beach thread now

thraed for the first glass beach album (and all subsequent glass beach albums)

said "oh shit" aloud to myself within the first few seconds of the great grandpa album

^^ wait till you get to tracks 4, 5, 7 and 8

this record poured directly out of my head

album of the year

or at least the future me hates me of the year

as much as I like that album I do get a "this is the one right before the amazing one" vibe from it

that’s probably/hopefully true

yeah this is good stuff

new Ratboys good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqDNufv66Wg

i agree i love that song

i did it: great grandpa - four of arrows

Anyone at Dashboard tonight? O-O

in spirit<3

what did u think about the now is then is now releases? i only listened through once but wasn't super blown away...

No, me neither. I think he was quite self aware about how little people seemed to respond to them. It just seemed a very personal mission. The venue tonight is a Catholic Church, which is cool! Aaw Mordy if me and LJ ever come to the US we’ll try to time it with a Dashboard gig.

is it a small venue bc he doesn't have such a big following in uk or a big church? when he plays philly/jersey/ny area he always sells out moderate sized venues (sold out two nights in philly during this most recent tour)

i think this is being positioned as emo rap but it sounds like it could be an early 1975 song to me

https://soundcloud.com/postcarcrashscene/is-the-taste-of-him-a-sour-reminder-of-everything-that-went-wrong

or more precisely, what an early 1975 song would've sounded like if lil peep existed before the 1975 did

xp He was doing three nights there and they sold out in minutes! Last time he was over he sold out a large venue.

And speaking of the 1975, apparently Matt Healy joined him on stage the previous night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-12_o5zZk

new creeper!!!

ahhhh yay! this is great

honestly if this was MCR's comeback single I wouldn't be mad lol

I recently discovered Little Big League and am loving it... totally slept on that, and Japanese Breakfast hasn't hooked me (yet). Any opinions? I know it isn't a 2019 band.

y'all

the origami angel record is this thread's album of the year https://origamiangel.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-city

holy crow this is fun! "The Title Track"!!

each successive track on this thing = the vince mcmahon reaction meme

i like that OA record, but as long as we're nominating Emo Thread AOTY, i'll nom Oso Oso :) it's damn near perfect

Yeah, this is good. Is "Midwest Emo" really a genre? That's how RYM labels this, though apparently the band is from DC?

yeah it's a common enough term. the origin of it is that the 90s jangly/mathy second-wave emo scene was most prominent in the us midwest.

after a few more listens i kinda think somewhere city is a modern classic

I've listened a bunch - it's grown off me a tiny bit just because the vocals and lyrics seem a little undistinguished but they're clearly a hell of a band, I love the video game music influence

Once again something I'd call "emo-adjacent", but on first listen Holy Fawn's Death Spells is kinda scratching my Juno itch, distended and surprisingly aggressive songs with a dense thicket of tones. Not sure yet if the songs are all there but the sound is great. (I guess it was technically issued last year but only made its streaming debut in 2019)

I went from thinking the new Creeper song was a decent teaser to being pretty sure it's one of their very best songs. Them, Foxing and Fireworks are my most anticipated for the '20 edition of this thread

Came here to see if anyone was talking about this insane Origami Angel album - ILX never disappoints. They have a Get Up Kids-y energy to them at times. I'm only halfway through my first listen and I am already so excited.

Also Simon otm about Creeper.

origami angel is some top tier motivationcore

It’s quickly climbing my favorites of the year list.

Not sure if beach Slang fits the thread but man I got a review copy of the new record and it ain't good.

i think i have always posted about them in the rolling emo threads anyway. am unsurprised the album sucks

I quite liked their first eps and that first record. they've got rid of the hopeful, earnestness that I liked about them and doubled down on rock cliche.

I like the Future Teens record, h/t Singles Jukebox

god bless Drug Church for slotting in a small Toronto headlining show in the middle of their tour w Thrice

man, i don't "get" the Glass Beach record/love.

i've been listening to their album for what feels like 45 minutes and i'm on track 3

and i've tried it 3 or 4 times now ... i guess it's not for me, but is for everyone else

they have a thread btw

gonna start the 2020 emo thread shortly

I was about to pester you!

I'm a little late on this one, but if you love The Maine or fellow southwesterners Anarbor (their tracks "Freaking Out!" and "Every High Has a Come Down" especially), check out "Twilight (My Heaven) from Philly band Grayscale. This rowdy, driving tune is loaded with those little elements that you'll find in most great songs, like a glorious pre-chorus, a bass-drum fill (!) midway through the chorus amidst the huge harmonies, and a few moments of silence amidst it all; and it just sounds fantastic blasting on your car stereo with the windows down. ("Baby Blue", another standout track of theirs from '19 album Nella Vita, is in the spirit of The 1975's "She's American")

https://open.spotify.com/track/3EkFeBY9RmLIKxkJdXpGvi?si=kFYuAL-ySGmxEJbRy1KI_Q