Sun Hotel's Rational Expections -- the band's last hurrah, reportedly -- sounds pretty good to me. Garage? Emo? Rock? Pop? Don't ask me what genre anything is. Lead singer sounds quite a bit like Julian Casablancas at times.
http://open.spotify.com/album/6c8gOO1ASVnQSOsHWf7ou5
Choice cuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Ma_lytdy0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPERmqvljA
― Sleepy, Hollow (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
as far as i can tell the jeff rosenstock album completely rules
http://www.spin.com/articles/jeff-rosenstock-we-cool-album-new/
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
I'd never heard of Sun Hotel before, but these are good. Early Bright Eyes meets a less raucous (and ambitious) Titus Andronicus. Will be checking out the album.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 February 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1448228623_10.jpg
only on the first listen and i'm not sure of its staying power but so far this makeshift shelters record is a total blast, total anniversary/forecast vibes https://makeshiftshelters.bandcamp.com/album/something-so-personal
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 27 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
3 songs into the Makeshift Shelters and liking it. Two finds here in one week--thanks, thread!
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 February 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
dang that sun hotel record is up all my alleys
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Listened to it once; it's solid, but I do wish it rocked a bit more.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 1 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
this makeshift shelters is pretty great
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
the Rosenstock is terrific! reminds me of Devin Davis
― alpine static, Thursday, 5 March 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
reviving thread to wholeheartedly second (again) the Jeff Rosenstock album:
http://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/album/we-cool
― alpine static, Thursday, 26 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
i'm seeing him with chunked next month v stoked
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 March 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
lol chumped
I wanna be enthusiastic about that Makeshift Shelters effort, but eh, its just mostly ok for me on first listening. Lyrics are kinda entertaining though--that song about the punker than thou guy
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Digging this: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/soda-bomb-wanna-jam-album
― alpine static, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Hah I actually love the Makeshift Shelters on first listen - everything about their aesthetic, including their name, is very early 00's to me
― 龜, Friday, 3 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
This is probably an unfair comparison but I thought about this song for the first time in literally 10 years after listening to Makeshift Shelters today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcSfW9V2So
― 龜, Friday, 3 April 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
(Also it's crazy to me that this song has 100k+ viewS)
― 龜, Friday, 3 April 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
This is a quick, quarterly reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread are being posted as updated to a thread-specific Spotify playlist that I'm maintaining. I just did a quick sweep prior to posting this message and updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.
That playlist is currently a bit less than an hour of music and is clickable below. Give it a spin and subscribe if you want to listen along through the year.
Rolling Emo/Pop-Punk/Bullshit/Haircuts 2015 Thread Thread Spotify Playlist
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 April 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
yr not collecting albums?
― Mordy, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
sub in "tracks and selected cuts off albums mentioned on this"
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 April 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
I assume this goes here:
http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2015/04/sound-and-fury-mitski
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
maybe too straight-up "punk" for the thread but thanks to prompting by the Propagandhi twitter account, I discovered this very rousing and catchy 2014 album by The Rebel Spell, whose singer passed recently in a hiking accident:
http://therebelspell.bandcamp.com/album/last-run
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I'll third that Jeff Rosenstock album. It's a little all over the place to me but in a good fun way.
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
the new turnover songs sound... pretty good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bOAE_s8UI
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
this one too http://www.vice.com/read/vice-exclusive-listen-to-turnovers-new-song
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
oh incidentally there's a new mewithoutyou album in june and the new song is the best thing they've put out in years https://soundcloud.com/runforcoverrecords/mewithoutyou-red-cow
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
and that turnover record is pretty good! a little samey but very suited toward the weather right now
I would like to belatedly also join the Jeff Rosenstock praise chorus, especially as the sun's out which makes it sound even better.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
Can we talk about Marietta here? Cuz new album is great. Like Piebald meets Cap'n Jazz.
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
well that sounds right up my alley
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
Sorry. The I was listeing to the old record. the few tracks I heard sounded like that. The new record less so.
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Monday, 18 May 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
My friend sent me a link. New album is more lo-fi, like california fuzz stuff. Less cool
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Monday, 18 May 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
ugh why is everyone trying to be less cool
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
oh hey there's a new Envy album http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr259
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
holy SHIT the two tracks they have streaming sound amazing
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
it took a bit to grow on me, but of late i can't stop listening to the new brand new song "mene"
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
That one Jeff Rosenstock song always makes me want to listen to Disco 2000 :(
― 龜, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
Is this where we would talk about the latest Good Riddence and Strung Out albums too? Because while hardly reinventing the wheel both are surprisingly return to form. The GR in particular is pretty great.
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
Menzingers/Chumped a perfectly calibrated concert pairing. humped's vocal disclaimer about respecting space and boundaries while having fun carried over to make for a friendly, just-raucous-enough Menzingers crowd full of hand-on-heart singalong bros (and more than a few ecstatic fangirls)
Also I hope this is a safe space to say that I may be in love with the lead singer/guitarist from Chumped
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
anika's a completely kickass person so i don't blame you tbh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:35 (eight years ago) link
ok phew
anyway the real lesson here is that I need to go to more emo-y shows, there's a Fireworks one coming up but iirc they're caught up in that horrible scene shit so no thx
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
ahhh nvm I was thinking of The Wonder Years. disregard!
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
fireworks are going on hiatus soon, see them imo
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
makeshift shelters broke up! damn
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
really enjoying the new Desaparecidos album. "Golden Parachutes" and "Te Amo Camila Vallejo" are jams, Oberst should stick to this gear imo
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
seeing rvivr tonight, excited af
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah the desaparecidos record ruuuules
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.
Brevity is the soul of haircuts so here's 26 songs in just a little over an hour.
ILX's Rolling Emo/Pop Punk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
wow thanks forks! lol i should post in this thread more often
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
the new refused record is okay!
must check that out immediately thx
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
mind you the last Loma Prieta record was very "Converge meets emo" and didn't work for me at all so we'll see
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
this also has a lot of post-rocky parts but i'm generally unbothered bc the parts that cook really fucking cook
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
goddamn this rules
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
might be my imagination but I feel like it has some of the ingenuity of the Cloud Rat album
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
hell yeah it does!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link
I listened to this earlier at my emo-loving gf's insistence and yeah it's something for everyone
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Friday, 11 December 2015 02:00 (eight years ago) link
of course it is possible that I might myself like (some) emo, but let's do this one at a time please
finally the band that brings everyone together
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2015 03:58 (eight years ago) link
man, remember that makeshift shelters record from earlier this year? that thing was really good
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
ahevtn kept up with this like I wanted to this year, you have a best of list for this stuff, Brad? Or anyone else.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
*I haven't
most of the records i was looking forward to in this genre ended up disappointing me but lemme see if i can scrape together a top whatever
mewithoutyou: pale horsesthe front bottoms: back on toprolo tomassi: grievancesfightstar: behind the devil's backpetal: shamejulien baker: sprained anklefoxing: dealerthe world is a beautiful place: harmlessnessannabel: having it allfall out boy: american beauty/american psycholaura stevenson: cocksurebeach slang: the things we do to find people who feel like usmakeshift shelters: something so personalallison weiss: new lovebetter off: milk
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
huh the better off record is definitely better than being last on that list, no idea why i ordered it like that
considered putting the wonder years record on that list but it really is half garbage to me at this point
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
i rate the beach slang, fall out boy + allison weiss. the fob is really a fantastic record and imo only suffers bc they've put out such high quality content as of late that it seems unremarkable. also like
not on tour - bad habitstitle fight - hyperviewcolleen green - i want to grow upneck deep - life's not out to get youteenage bottlerocket - tales from wyoming
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
thanks, friends! Gonna drop these in a playlist and check em out.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
love that Title Fight album
― anonanon, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed the Spraynard and Red City Radio records but YMMV
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah I meant to revisit the spraynard record. they're getting better all the time
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
Does FIDLAR fit into this categorization? Their new one and the Beach Slang are by my fave punky things from this year.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 December 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
the Wonder Years album held up p well for me, esp w/ my slightly edited playlist.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 17 December 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
and despite my best efforts I was v bored with the TWIABPAIANLATD album. I would add that about half of the Turnover album was stellar. there was a killer EP in there.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 17 December 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
Still can't believe that the FOB came out this year; seems years old by now. Some regional stuff - self-titleds from Carb On Carb (Flying Nun-ish indie group that've slowly transitioned into 90s emo/pop-punk; kinda Rainer Maria-ish ... half of the band is from Auckland's greatest group never to record a full-length album, Moron Says What) and Chinese Football (from 成都, v.much in a twinkle/American Football style).
― etc, Thursday, 17 December 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (The Max Levine Ensemble, Title Fight, Chumped, Colleen Green) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.
Rolling Emo/Pop Punk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 January 2016 06:59 (eight years ago) link