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/

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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

I like this recent Ratboys album (posting here b/c it's mentioned above; tho I wouldn't have thought to classify it in one of the thread title's genres).

Some of it reminds a little of old-school Sleepyhead (that dreamy, love-rock feel)... some tracks also have a bit of a Big Thief sound, like if their first album had been even poppier (though it may be the singer's vocal tone that's largely leading me there).

...actually, no, it's more than just her voice. The guitar sound too

ratboys are kind of part of the "scene." if i've ever seen a band play the fest, they belong in this thread

new Partner single close to a return to 1st LP form

https://soundcloud.com/youve-changed-records/partner-good-place-to-hide-at-the-time-1

also, in unexpected comebacks: fuckin SHINER???

https://youtu.be/Cpj92auxIwg

warning for the general emo thread population, the acceptance record may exceed the limits of earnestness normally tolerated by the emo thread

i listened to the black foxxes record twice in a row today, it's the real deal

I'm generally a big fan of most anything Brad recommends but this:

and the final track eventually works itself into a gish-era-sp-type jam

reallllllly sold me.

listened to that acceptance album yesterday, thx brad. i think its ok, about half good. i get a lot of killers sound from it.

about half good is where i landed as well, but that half is real good

dark age through wildfires is the highlight for me.

The Black Foxxes album isn't out yet, is it?

New Touché Amoré is really hitting the spot!

An emotional rock trio from Devon eh

Devonians have feelings too

And theories. Simulation theories

OIC

black foxxes record is out oct 30

you'd best have sold it accurately lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eROcr_5j5k

lj you should listen to "badlands" and find out

Oh this vocalist!!

This is one of the most instantly arresting vocal presences in a while. The music is that good 90s stuff, as advertised

Holy shit what has this turned into

exactly

so the best two emo bands in the world have 'fox' in the name then

looking forward to "badlands" placing in the 77 and everyone getting mad at me

I will join that quest

love this youtube comment:

Haervi u
3 weeks ago
I’m strictly Electronic/minimal (the totally opposite) but I feel I have stumbled upon a track that the rock heads would die for😂

lol i noted that one too

finally got around to the touché amoré, this is fucking great

i really liked stage four but this feels like the big leap

Ross Robinson, emo king

I'll stand behind that. Relationship of Command, Burn Piano Island, and now Lament. He has a lot of credits under his belt that I don't care for but its undeniable that he had a major role in some of my absolute favorite albums ever made.

soupy from the wonder years confirmed the fireworks album is coming out this year. i sure hope so

soupy from the wonder years had best not be lying

brad you were not lying about the Black Foxxes album! what a huge step up for them.

Is it out? I'll happily listen to Badlands on repeat for 50m if not

Oh I have to wait 4 hours, grr

Yeah, this is great, even if Badlands towers above all

weirdly I'm only not totally sold on the epic closer? otherwise this is definitely scratching the neo-90s-altrock itch that Wolf Alice does for me

inner space rock

it is a bit Radiohead for me to completely love it but I can see why Brad likes Panic so much, haha. And that last minute is an almighty payoff

the first four tracks are my favourite stretch because I'm an instant gratification junkie lol

but that was the case with the Foxing album as well and I ended up loving all of it

the fox bands need to do an album together

I also really like the closing track but my favourite bit of it is the songy opening stretch

update: I have now listened to Black Foxxes a frankly embarrassing number of times

^^^same

Is there not a way to get a physical version of that Black Foxxes record in the US? Even when I go to their website and click on the literal pictures of the LP or CD versions in their shop, it kicks me to a link that only takes me to streaming/digital ways to get it.

it appears we have not talked about this band in this thread:

https://clearbody.bandcamp.com/album/one-more-day-2

album out Friday, good chunky rumbling, slightly dreamy punk/emo with vocals that remind me of other (older) bands but i can't quite place ... especially the use of looooooong, held out notes/syllables. i feel like there's a really close 80s/90s analog, but i'm having trouble figuring it out.

a very fun and economical pop-punk/emo album from this year I had missed: Teenage Halloween's s/t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyT1iHP28q0

Also no mention itt of this catchy punky poppy record that is seriously growing on me 9 months after its release:

https://hotmulligan.bandcamp.com/album/youll-be-fine

Also ... did I miss the 2021 thread?

Not sure of the protocol with the jump to the new thread, but finally got around to the Black Foxxes record. This is terrific. I haven't kept up with everything itt, but this and the new Ratboys records were huge discoveries for me this year thanks to you folks.

the protocol is to wait for brad to do it lol

Haha I just meant whether to continue talk about 2020 releases in the old thread.

i think when all is said and done i've decided the Ratboys record is the best emo thread record of 2020