my emo cru-and-adjacent faves this year in no particular order
PbtTDrug ChurchMewithoutyouFred ThomasawakebutstillinbedJoyce ManorTiny Moving PartsDonovan WolfingtonCloserMom JeansSlow MassFoxingSuper Unison
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
i rate foxing and awakebutstillinbed v highly. gonna add boygenius, the dashboard and snail mail.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
i probably forgot 10000 things but here's my top 15 emo edition
mewithoutyou: untitleddrug church: cheerrolo tomassi: time will die and love will bury itfoxing: nearer my godfall out boy: m a n i ajohn nolan: abendigojoyce manor: million dollars to kill mesaves the day: 9restorations: lp5000now, now: savedself defense family: have you considered punk musicblack foxxes: reiðihopesfall: arbiterremember sports: slow buzzreal friends: composure
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
i did forget something which is fiddlehead!!!! put that above john nolan
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
i also forgot coheed, which: the album ended up being kind of monotonous but the individual songs are soooooo good
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
yeah I listen to my edited version a lot but I had to slash a solid half-hour to make the pacing acceptable
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
is the new saves the day good!!!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
also yes that super unison rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 November 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
i feel like i'm the only person who has noticed how many bangers are on this year's dashboard confessional album
It grew on me so much. Catch You is one of my most listened-to tracks this year.
I saw DC last night at the first London show in over ten years. I was freaking out for a week in advance and continue to freak out. I saw them once at Glastonbury in 2006 but that wasn't the same kind of experience at all...of all the emo sing-alongs, this was the most wildly exalting. He also played a new song he'd just written which sounded way more like old Dashboard and was pretty great.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
These emo year-end lists are great! I'll think of mine this weekend and listen to everything I missed
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, November 16, 2018 3:08 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think it is yes! a catchy and fun tour diary with a 20 minute epic at the end
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XkwbW-wU8&list=PLxwHtUHlFZ5HGH24MCAVHtHbKRi9ERZePhas Turnover been mentioned here? I'm digging it (though they are not new). The intro to this track reminds me of SY's "Brave Men Run" then later I hear GYBE! and The Promise Ring lol. This track is kinda spacey/indie but they are more properly emobarrassing on the LP 'Magnolia' which I keep coming back to
― rip van wanko, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
ermhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XkwbW-wU8&list=PLxwHtUHlFZ5HGH24MCAVHtHbKRi9ERZeP
― rip van wanko, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
i love turnover! i never managed get into the most recent record but i liked magnolia and straight-up loved about half of peripheral vision
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
New Astronoid single is very cute!
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 1 December 2018 11:05 (five years ago) link
That other East Midlands city has developed a really good queerpunk scene, and Kermes definitely need to be on this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_1Rn0brSxshttps://kermes.bandcamp.com/
They absolutely slay live, seriously go see them if you get a chance.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
That's great. Nothing says queerpunk like naming your song after a Maggie Nelson book, lol
― imago, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
great song
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Nothing says queerpunk like naming your song after a Maggie Nelson book, lol
― imago, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:40 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
non-starter for me
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
This Culture Abuse album is some ultra-sunny pop punk:
https://cultureabuse.bandcamp.com/album/bay-dream
― o. nate, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
^^ good stuff
this year more than ever before, i think, it's clear just how many great records get forgotten or lost in the year-end shuffle
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
new copeland album next year
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
*spottie bat signal*
― Spottie, Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
That Culture Abuse is weird. I don't know anything about them but it sounds like a bunch of hardcore dudes gave up hardcore to make a weezer record but forgot to change their bandname. That all sounds like a dis, but it's good dumb fun.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
sounds like a bunch of hardcore dudes gave up hardcore to make a weezer record
sounds like the drug church record lol, gonna check it out
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
it's so not hardcore/punk in the way the the drug church record is. The "hardcore dudes" I'm imagining is mostly just something about his demeanor/delivery, def not the music. Like there's just a vibe I get that reminds me of like H20's softer moments, or like Weston or something.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
two new copeland songs:
"pope"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duo3rG1DzSw
and "night figures": https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8488785/copeland-night-figures-song
album is called blushing and i really love the cover art. out february 14
https://www.billboard.com/files/media/copeland-blushing-2018-billboard-embed.jpg
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
already feels gloomier and thicker than ixora which i am absolutely here for
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
third American Football record is out 03/22. hayleuy williams, rachel goswell and elizabeth from Land of Talk guest. single/opener:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TcUvXzgwMY
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
attn new york emo ilxors
Okay! Doing this last minute to try and help our friends at Irving Plaza, a very important venue to us, get to 100 sold out shows for the year! Tickets on-sale at 1pm! 3 albums in full! One night only! pic.twitter.com/Ta9gr5bCtO— Taking Back Sunday (@TBSOfficial) December 14, 2018
i don't think i can go to this and it's ruining my life
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
wow wish i still lived in NYC tbph so i could go to that
― Mordy, Friday, 14 December 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
not emo exactly but related: laura stevenson is dropping an album tomorrow
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
which, thank god, i'm so happy
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
"just" a double a-side, as it turns out
https://laurastevenson.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystic-the-master
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
lol i wish spotify wouldn’t classify albums so broadly
still, psyched
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
well, those two laura stevenson songs are two of her very best, i’m very excited for a whole album to sound like them
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
lol i was trying to parse that sentence on the TBS poster, not knowing those were albums names. still kinda made sense in an engrish way
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Frightening amount of all-time solid gold stuff available here PAY WHAT YOU WANT for this week:
https://bsmrocks.bandcamp.com/
Joyce Manor, mewithoutYou, so much goodness which you should already own...
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
Woah, good looking out
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
I'll leave it to brad to start the 2019 thread but the two new Mineral songs are great
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 4 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
kinda having thread-naming block but i'll start it soon
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link