rolling emo/pop-punk/permanent anxiety 2020

let's just say it was def not recorded in a studio but it's still pretty cool

hearing Kay Hanley do "Radiation Vibe" is so cool

earmarking for later: there's a new We Versus the Shark?!

https://wevstheshark.bandcamp.com/

mansions album came out today!!!! it's fucking sick!!!!!!

https://mansions.bandcamp.com/album/big-bad

only $5

i'm not linking it but i'm so fucking furious that billboard published an article about the attempted comeback of the abuser from pwr bttm. so furious

there's a worthwhile way to tell/cover that story but scanning the article it seems extremely sympathetic tot he point of fawning

Shortly after the Jezebel post, Hopkins read a Facebook entry mentioning the accuser’s hometown and says he became convinced that Jen was the woman he had met at the Midwest house party. “I was like, wait a minute, I didn't bring this person back to my house like it says in the article. I went back to their house at their invitation,” they say, then referring to their later rendezvous in New York, “If I'm this big, [imposing] person who you don't feel safe with, why do you want to come stay at my house?”

good stuff. not at all taken directly from the abuser's playbook

not my story to tell but i know someone they abused, and y'know maybe this piece could've never been written or published

Barbaris originally wanted Hopkins to write a first-person account of their 2017 experience as an op-ed for this outlet. Billboard’s editors suggested instead a reported story in which Hopkins as well as their accusers would be given the opportunity to tell their respective accounts.

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Billboard’s numerous, repeated attempts to present the accounts of these accusers as well as those of the music-industry representatives that dropped PWR BTTM were met largely with silence. The person who leveled the charges of sexual abuse did respond by email, but after expressing anger that Billboard was working on a story about Hopkins, declined to speak on the record.

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feel like any editor who read both of those paragraphs would remember the existence of the kill fee

I can certainly imagine an interesting piece about someone accused of abuse who took stock, reconciled appropriately, took some time, and then all concerned wrestling with how to come back from that. This is clearly not that piece or that situation

welcome to the pop punk thread juice wrld

https://youtu.be/_YwppMLPoPg

An 11-year-old student of mine will be thrilled I'm finally getting into Juice WRLD. That song is adorable, I love it.

I really like this song from little Trust Fund-esque twee indie band Finish Flag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQt78ikWwJw

New Creeper song 'Poisoned Heart' sounding a lot like both 'Soak Up the Sun', and 'Perfect Day' from the Legally Blonde soundtrack. I feel more neutrally about it than the other advance singles which were sounding great, but needed to record those connections somewhere so it doesn't drive me crazy later.

god we've been anticipating that fuckin album for over six months now. unfair

Arriving in September now, apparently. ;_;

acc to their site it's still this coming Friday? another delay would be silly

new Touche Amore! ross robinson produces! andy hull of manchester orchestra guests!!

https://youtu.be/MnQTsq1womA

aaaand the Creeper album, which kicked off the thread back in January, is FINALLY out today. stoked to dig into it (what's left of it that's new, that is)

this is pretty much all mid-tempo which is a bit of a bummer on contact, but I bet it will blossom nicely over the next while. "black moon" is a wonderful deep cut

hadn't realized there's also a new Fall of Troy on the way - the concept is a little strange, though

https://bsmrocks.com/collections/home-page/products/the-fall-of-troy-mukiltearth-lp

I had paid zero attention to Creeper until this new album, obviously need to go back to the last one too. But this is reeeeaaaaally scratching that MCR gothy glam-punk itch. So many hooks, and I love that it's a little cheeky but also totally unironic in all its doomy romanticism.

I think I prefer the sugar rush of the debut but I do like the new one a lot

I had paid zero attention to Creeper until this new album, obviously need to go back to the last one too. But this is reeeeaaaaally scratching that MCR gothy glam-punk itch. So many hooks, and I love that it's a little cheeky but also totally unironic in all its doomy romanticism.

same here - loving this record and will check out the earlier one too. it's less emo/pop punk and way more glam than I expected? singer sounds a bit like Patrick Wolf in his lower range, similar levels of goth theatricality too.

new black foxxes tune is immense! s/t album out end of October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0X1PDjm8R4

I missed that the 8.5-minute "Badlands" was released earlier and it's...a lot

Waveless returns


https://open.spotify.com/track/0s3qpxAuwj5K00HnG1Hh4e?si=ZdKayTYDTUesUJhjRhOwLA

did we mention/notice there's an excellent new Into It Over It song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHodiD5sXzM

uh so this Young Jesus album

lost interest in the into it over it album after reading the press release

now that i'm back i would like to say the creeper album is perfect

ah I see what you mean re: IIOI

I need to give Creeper more front to back listens but I love that they exist

i really love the way it splices britpop and pop-punk, it's like gerard way's career in reverse

much like others were with the Beths album I was initially a bit taken aback at the mellowness but I'm learning to embrace it in both cases

but seriously, young jesus. there's even a Blue Nile ref on their bandcamp, what more could you want from yr saddle creek jazz-prog emo?

i don't get mellowness at all from the creeper, it's maximal at every turn. it's less of a sugar rush than the last one tho

"thorns of love" reminds me of the more ambitious hair metal adjacent stuff that maura plays me whenever we're drunk and hanging out

Thanks for the heads up about Young Jesus. Loving this so far. "Lark" is amazing.

it's really really good and one of the few times I've been legitimately compelled to evoke j*ff b*ckl*y when describing their sound

hoo boy i gotta hear this record

brad I am like 99% sure you will love this

on third listen and hearing a fair bit of sea and cake (esp "Lark")

was wavering between annoyance and enjoyment but track 3 is a clear step up, will continue for the whole thing

pretty good? let's rescreen. not sure i got a full handle on it

yeah Sea and Cake, Tortoise (at times) and The Antlers come to mind when listening to this. some of the guitars remind me of Kinsella-y midwest emo stuff and something like Real Estate

listened again this morning sober on my commute, a totally distinct experience (lol) but still v cool. I'm fond of the slightly more aggressive previous album as well

young jesus > regular jesus

I've given myself a forced break from the young jesus album to make sure I don't wear it out, but I look forward to returning

never knew i needed an emo-adjacent bark psychosis in my life, but what do you know