rolling emo/pop-punk/bullshit/feelings about pizza 2014

Nice track. Great vox in particular.

god rvivr keep getting better

oh shit rvivr

so the new RVIVR ep is here and goddamn is it good

https://rvivr.bandcamp.com/album/bicker-and-breathe-ep

I like how the first track seems to end in a natural place and you're thinking ok that was a really good song but then it's like syke we're not done here and whacks you in the side of the head with a massive group singalong coda

fuuuck yes

New Dads is streaming, good

http://pitchfork.com/advance/563-ill-be-the-tornado/

the new dads is pretty good (lol)

also rainer maria reunited??!?!!?!!!!!?????!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?????!?!?!?!!!!!!! playing bowery on nye

wat

this doesn't quite fit this thread (it's more power-pop than pop-punk) but i think it's totally brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-DCM8QMk8

:)

RVIVR's "Goodbyes" definitely closing out my year-end mix

after a few listens i really love the new jazz june record (who knew) http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-jazz-june-after-the-earthquake-album-stream

also rainer maria reunited??!?!!?!!!!!?????!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?????!?!?!?!!!!!!! playing bowery on nye

I last saw them play at Bowery Ballroom with Ted Leo and Cave In. Must have been 1999? Totally all over the place bill that worked really well.

http://instagram.com/p/vb_TkeDiCT/

as a person who'll always have a place in my music heart for brand new, MCR, thursday, jimmy eat world, some fall out boy back in the day & also got into the genre roots stuff like jawbox, rites of spring, texas is the reason, etc. etc...i find it odd that i can't really latch onto much of the "emo revival" stuff. just doesn't do it for me - like i dont like TWIABP or balance & composure or the hotelier or into it. over it. that much. also the frontperson of TWIABP threw shade at MCR in an interview, so i obvs have a vendetta against him for LIFE

exceptions have been dads & joyce manor - those are all good. recommendations for stuff in that vein worth checking out?

sounds like you were not necessarily into the midwestern brand of emo that a lot of this revival "twinkle" stuff traces back to

have you tried Dikembe? I liked some stuff from their new album this year

maybe also Crash of Rhinos

have not heard of either, will try.

i mean i've tried braid and mineral and promise ring & liked bits and pieces from either but i guess it didn't stick, although jimmy eat world comes from that scene to some extent and i like them. and for all the "mainstream/breakthrough" emo bands i listed, i also was either bored by or truly disliked saves the day, senses fail, most taking back sunday, dashboard confessional and whatnot.

*from all

man that hotelier record is still prob my top "emo revival" release of the year, idk the melodies just grow so naturally out of each other and are so powerful. joyce manor is also the best

if you have a lot of love for jimmy eat world you might like the driver friendly record that came out this year or all of their records really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDgG6T4IpI

i'm also a big fan of the jazz june record that came out this year but it's them doing really straightforward pop-rock

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

imo a bunch of the emo revival bands just aren't that interesting, including TWIABP, Into It, Modern Baseball, etc. You Blew It's OK.

But The Hotelier and Joyce Manor are both *awesome* ... or at least their 2014 records are.

xpost i dig that Driver Friendly record, too

between last year's rolling emo thread and this one i've developed a real loathing for the world is

i think the hotelier have great instrumentation, his voice is jussssttttttttt beyond the threshold of reediness/whininess for me though, idk. i know, i know, its not a thing to complain about in this genre/subgenre/movement/thing, but i find it hard to take sometimes. i will give it another go-round.

will check out this driver friendly band, appreciate all the tips. (also this is one of the better thread names i've encountered)

yeah i dont get the TWIABP hype at all it's half-assed explosions in the sky with choruses and inscrutable-ass lyrics, does sound pretty tho

modern baseball i thought was aight

TWIABP released an album or EP or something this year that appeared to be largely spoken word and it was pretty cringeworthy based on the couple of minutes I could stand to listen to it

What band rn is doing the closest thing to Coheed and Cambria

Is there really a band called modern baseball & are they just copying American Football

coheed sucks and yes there is and no they are not because american football is fucking boring.

in keeping secrets + second stage turbine do not suck

coheed does NOT suck but i can't think of a band like them out there right now

also imo the afterman records were a real return to form for coheed

also, it's kind of all over this thread already, but RVIVR is amazing

sucks is a strong word. my bad. just not my thing, mostly because of prob the most unlistenable voice aside from that simple plan dude. but yea, to their credit what they did was pretty original at the time, sonically.

Hotelier guy's voice is certainly on the line of too reedy/whiny, but I dunno ... it works for me. I guess he stays just on the right side of the line.

But the real draw on HOME LIKE NOPLACE IS THERE, for me, are the guitars. they just feel so ... i dunno, for lack of a better word: epic. i should explain that better, but am swamped right now ... but as just one example, the way the main guitar riff comes to life at :43 of "Among the Wildflowers" (and just the beautiful melodic arc of that little riff in general) is some life-affirming shit, man.

kinda got into the recent coheed album, not all of it but some of it worked well.

But The Hotelier and Joyce Manor are both *awesome* ... or at least their 2014 records are.

Joyce Manor's s/t debut is a bit of a modern classic imo, their 2nd one is good too but it's absurdly skimpy even by their standards

closer to thrice than coheed but i guess one of my answers to the question upthread is "circa survive," whose new record is excellent and streaming on youtube http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH22-xSMERQqUX3ogTqRNTqgzOZbdoxeW

i remember when c&c/thrice and thursday were touring together - it was like the nirvana/pearl jam/soundgarden tour for emo kids!

I completely get why people don't like them, and On the Impossible Past did nothing for me at all, but I have been listening to the Menzingers' Rented World an awful lot lately. There's something satisfying about how basic and stubbornly unclever the lyrics are, especially in conjunction with the music, which is very polished and streamlined but still convincingly gloomy. Just the right amount of melodrama. Maybe it's just a symptom of the constant blah downer feeling that being back in school after a prolonged absence brings out.

i've never been able to get into their albums but i loved them when they opened for gaslight anthem

lots of energy

they're great live and dull on record

newish iron chic track from a split 7"

https://soundcloud.com/noisey/iron-chic-lesprit-de-lescalier

Not sure if they fit here, but I'm digging the new Two Inch Astronaut record, kinda reminds me of the Don Vail record from a few years back. Pleaantly knotty and 90s.

i fucking love two inch astronaut

I guess this is gonna be my best chance to link to a track from the don vail album, since there's no reason that anyone who wasn't paying strict attn to Cdn college rock in the late 00s would have ever heard it - falls into that not-indie/not-emo hinterland for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA37a3dJ92k

the following thought is apropos of nothing rly but i need a safe space to shout it:

WHY THE FUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK WON'T THERE BE A NEW BRAND NEW ALBUM THERE'D SRSLY BE NO TIME BETTER THAN RIGHT NOW :[ :[ :[

at least they seem to be recording?