rolling emo/pop-punk/permanent anxiety 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6dORf4EVMc

kicking the year off with creeper, who will likely be fucking huge

both new Creeper songs are immense, glad they now have the widescreen production they deserve

really digging the Cayetana album, super concise lil gems

wait, cayetana album? didn't they break up

ahhh apparently it's a reissue of their 2014 album it's dated jan 2020 on Spotify. anyway it's real good!

oh nervous like me is definitely a very good record

"hot dad calendar" and "black hills" forever

i'm also guessing it was reissued bc it looks like tiny engines is in trouble

something about the new Creeper songs and potentially getting a new MCR record just feels like (wonderful) overkill to me. we're not worthy!

also stoked for: Ratboys, Worriers, Pears, and fuckin FIREWORKS (proper album rollout when)

can confirm the ratboys record is fuckin awesome

lastly I mentioned it on the punk/non-indie thread but the Chubby and the Gang record is melodic enough for pop-punkers to roll with, I think

oh speaking of bands that don't quite fit this thread but i'm posting them anyway, is anybody here a bad enough dude to be down with knock over city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGO0yCmnbEs

this is great, gruff delivery reminds me of my beloved drug church a bit

y'all

this Ratboys album

i thought they were gonna be better than most of their contemporaries based on GN and this record delivers on that

otm, it's a goddamn achievement, i may start a thread

it isn't out for a month though! is that going too far

i guess i do that all the time but it feels mean when i've heard the album before everyone else lol

For the love of God, people, go see Drug Church live.

Thrice with mewithoutYou, Drug Church and Holy Fawn

So unfair, America.

Meanwhile, the new Spanish Love Songs album is killing me.

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-emo-songs.html

i filed blurbs for this a year ago and kinda refuse to look at it directly but enjoy

how come?

vulture sat on it for a year which diminished my enthusiasm for it, but i'm glad it exists now. also i have no idea what my blurbs are like anymore

they're good, Brad.

if anyone is nostalgic for catchy hairpin-turn pop-punk, I recommend the new Pears singles (and their last album and split LP with Direct Hit, for that matter).

oh hai epic new Hopesfall single

https://youtu.be/ft8jMLJuAC0

lol i was just about to post that

seriously thinking about hitting up Furnace Fest (unless someone can recommend a better emo/punk fest this summer/fall)

ha, I too came here to post the Hopesfall

i require more eight minute space emo epics

I was really hoping the Hum reunion was going to result in new music, so I'll have to settle for these guys

btw stream the goddamn ratboys album here http://www.mtv.com/news/3152930/ratboys-printers-devil-interview-stream/

same energypic.twitter.com/CorPBPR0NU

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who could forget dear ratboys

yo brad any idea when they're gonna properly announce that new Fireworks album

i wish i knew

simon have you heard the loathe record

it's more appropriate for the metal thread than here but also, in a way, it isn't

YES it's really good! I actually thought about bumping one of the Deftones threads because parts are almost criminally similar and it should appeal to anyone who's impatiently waiting for the new album. I'm not convinced by all of the djent-y bits but I'm impressed with the scope.

I thought simon had bumped this thread telling you all the Pup album placed in metal poll

oh I knew that was going to happen (one of the reasons I was fine w not voting for it)

another thing that could qualify for the metal thread: the new envy record is uh so fucking good???

it really is. a lot more metal than Pup though

It is v v good, feel like it flew under the radar. The curse of consistency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2C_9jLmNc

the least exhilarating of the singles so far but still really nice.

Envy usually make the metal poll. in fact a single made last years iirc