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

oh that's a nice surprise

"Scram!" sounds like a sneak peek of the next Glass Beach album jfc

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-unearthed-90s-footage-of-jimmy-eat-world-mineral-orchid-june-of-44-piebald-avail-more/?fbclid=IwAR2BzDFiQl-wkorqXT6KwQzSWG9tmmv2ju9GzxJfsJXoCo1qfOpoPm4_6M4

This is super cool.

after two listens I am ready to declare NO DREAM as considerably better than POST- but not quite as good as Worry which I don't think is toppable. also much more punk than I was expecting

Yessss! Halfway through and this is precisely the release of pent-up energy needed. Agree with Simon that it's a lot punkier than the previous. I'm crazy about the album art too.

I've listened to this 5-6 times already lol. it feels like it's five minutes long

My dopamine is through the roof right now haha

feeling extremely targeted by the lyrics of "Old Crap" in particular

sounding pretty good even if it's not a worry-level masterpiece

I assume Craig of the Creek (which I've not watched) is getting the benefit of his more showtuney/colorful side. I await his vastly improved take on American Idiot sometime after his TV watch ends.

NO TIME is full Basket Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYrJxNwW5I

"State Line" has been my NO DREAM highlight so far. I still think We Cool? is his best

and the title track which is pretty incredible

funny the title track is the mandatory "one song I find skippable" which seems to exist on every single Rosenstock release for me.

another new Creeper song, "All My Friends"....this rollout is taking forever but wow is this one a beaut

also I think the new Caligula's Horse record (and the superior previous one) would appeal more to emo thread cru people than most of the metal thread. big soaring heart-on-yr-sleeve shit, pretty close to the better moments on the Dear Hunter albums.

mansions! one of my favorite bands! they're back! putting out a new album on my birthday (6/26). new song is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHx-db-OzHE

holy post-punk "Everything In Its Right Place" batman

is it just me or is modern metallic hardcore sneaking into emo records more lately? (I feel like it used to be only the reverse that happened, hardcore bands doing an emo song or two). I am not mad about this development

Seems we might not get that new Fireworks this year after all :(

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

wow

makes me think of Autolux kinda?

yes

lots of emo and emo-adjacent acts on this Adam Schelsinger tribute comp

https://fatherdaughterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/saving-for-a-custom-van

including, it must be noted, Charly Bliss covering "Pretend to be Nice" which I have not gotten to yet but surely it rules

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