rolling emo/pop-punk/permanent anxiety 2020

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

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

if anyone is nostalgic for catchy hairpin-turn pop-punk, I recommend the new Pears singles

this album in fact absolutely slays

I'm surprised at the BNM for the Dogleg album - it's a fine debut but didn't feel that distinguished to me at least on one listen

much more up my alley: Wednesday's I Was Trying To Describe You to Someone, found via my Discover playlist. lovely hazy depressive bedroom-and-garage emo with elements of slowcore and some surprising little turns. features a song called "Maura" for extra ILM points.

the dogleg is very listenable

i agree w/ Simon ... it's a really good album! and that score is an over-correction. but that's ok.

if anyone missed it last year, this is a good time to check out Fred Thomas's doom-laden ambient emo maybe-masterpiece Aftering which sounds especially great right now

A couple listens in to that Dogleg album and I'm really enjoying it.

This Spanish Love Songs album is pretty bleak but I'm into it

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

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

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

soupy from the wonder years is a fuckin liar

lol

the last thing i heard was they're still workin' on it

anyway have yet to be hyped for an emo record this year, if anyone has any recs i'll start a new thread

yeah idk anything except that some reliable faves will reappear, including

Spent yesterday back at @sunsetsound tracking some more news songs with @JoyceManor. Those dudes wrote some great news songs and I’m honored to have been asked to play on them. No clue when you’ll be able to hear them. Also, sorry this isn’t a dog picture. pic.twitter.com/JVKueXlnHl

— Tony Thaxton (@tonythaxton) January 22, 2021

Does Portrayal of Guilt count? Their tracks from the upcoming album are excellent. I guess they are more screamo than emo, but I wouldn't dare to post this in the metal thread.

https://portrayalofguilt.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-always-alone

not seeing a 2021 thread but....new closer on the way

https://closernyc.bandcamp.com/album/within-one-stem

I think this is the first album I've heard in 2021 that would push me to start the 2021 thread, if that were my responsibility:

https://maxshh.bandcamp.com/album/feedback-pb

It's weird! There are definitely emo-thread elements here, but it's weird. And I love it.

earmarking for later: caracara covered bartees strange

https://noearbuds.bandcamp.com/track/caracara-mustang-bartees-strange

plenty here to start a new thread about, i'll get on that later today, lol thanks for waiting for me everyone

it could be no other way

thats funny. i feel like caracara, closer and bartees strange are probably the 3 best things I ever discovered because of rolling emo

I'm enjoying a couple of these tracks, though I am wondering if this might be a "small doses" kind of thing:

https://teenagewrist.bandcamp.com/album/earth-is-a-black-hole

This band definitely sounds like some big 2000s(ish) mainstream(ish) rock band that I do not know, but someone here will immediately.

this was posted to the metal thread but I feel like it will have a good home here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbo21aWFbhQ

https://thenib.com/pop-punk-is-queer-as-hell-bro/