rolling emo/pop-punk/embarrassing music 2018

happy new year, happy new jeff rosenstock record https://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/album/post

also looks like senses fail went back to their pop-punk roots, album out next month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHI3yhoWc8I

sad new emo year!!

Pianos Become the Teeth and Tiny Moving Parts have new ones out soonish

lmao at the ersatz Eno/SotL ending to the new Rosenstock record, bless his heart

POST- is fine but not really close to being as great as WORRY., it doesn't have the same sheer density of hooks

yeah the only two songs that really grab me in the worry way are the two epics. i also love "yr throat"

I really like the two quasi-ballads, "TV Stars" (despite its weirdly arbitrary chorus) and "9/10", which actually got me a little teary on first listen. Definitely a transitional record, which is easy to get away with when you release an album every 12-15 months.

"it's not like any other job I know / if you're a piece of shit they don't let you go" is a good of-the-moment lyric

Sounds great so far. It doesn't build and flow as seamlessly as WORRY, but I like all the songs individually.

OK, the Tiny Moving Parts song released today ("Warm Hand Splash") is *fantastic*

ooh i like them!

wow it's really great

new dashboard song out too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTVpWxu570

as usual the lyrics are not extraordinary and yet i feel moved listening to it

on more of a screamo tip, this is real good

https://closernyc.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-will-be

It was Stereogum's album of the week a few days ago:
https://www.stereogum.com/1978496/album-of-the-week-closer-all-this-will-be/franchises/album-of-the-week/

on more of a screamo tip, this is real good

https://closernyc.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-will-be

Wow, it is!

Ya this is sick

v intrigued by this, got a nice writeup in pfork today https://awakebutstillinbed.bandcamp.com/releases

That Tiny Moving Parts song wasn't bad, closer to what I'm looking for

Thank you for showing me Closer. Loving this so much

I'm liking Closer too; can't escape the irony that the chorus of the track they've set to play first is "All I want is something familiar" bc yeah this sounds familiar! In a good way!

just spending today missing the band fireworks

I'm hopeful they'll get back together at some point (unless you're about to tell me I shouldn't be)

oh i am too. oh common life deserves a follow-up

i had no idea that the dangerous summer reunited and recorded a new album? so far it's great, but their albums tend to start off great and drift into whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drs5aXT5mas

actually the album is pretty good the whole way through!

my favorite screamo song of the year is the last minute or so this all-screaming version of the Lady Bird trailer

I now present to you, the Lady Bird trailer, but I scream every word... pic.twitter.com/4W0BfwTZz9

— toni ▽ (@laterchalamet) January 26, 2018

that had me dying

should be nominated for best song at the oscars

tiny moving parts record is totally fucking awesome

easily their best

new black foxxes record is already one of my favorite albums of the year and this is one of the best songs from it. riyl: manchester orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1cCvY0hZzY

I do wish the TMP album were a touch more ambitious overall a la "Warm Hand Splash" but it is certainly v solid

based on my many listens to "Charisma" I have decided that PBtT's David Haik is the most overperforming drummer in emo (in a good way)

great track when is the album actually dropping

next friday

Enjoyed the last Runaway Brother album then kinda forgot about it quickly, but I'm looking forward to the new one. Some promising early tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDy2dnONsY

Super into this new DON BROCO album!

https://open.spotify.com/album/3jqjWkE4Q8BkkUIQSy3v9r?si=Im0klLCvQems7dqdGJAEXQ

what the

new Brian Fallon is out today, he's (unsurprisingly) gone even more retro and not really connected to anything even emo-adjacent at this point but it's not bad!

new Dashboard is out too for those so inclined. There's also an OK new Wonder Years single - album's out in April.

for those so inclined

don't mind if i do!

a little bit of awakebutstillinbed goes a long way but I've really been enjoying the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghvjUy4K10

Nice

I just listened to their whole album and really enjoyed it.

Everything in this thread is absolutely beautiful. Have been loving the Tiny Moving Parts, Closer, Jeff Rosenstock, Runaway Brother (who I'd never heard of before, so thank you Evan R), Senses Fail...all of it!

This is a really richly produced sort of emogaze by 'Snape', who don't seem to have released much else before this. The whole thing sounds great, but try track 5 for something instantly loveable.
https://snapeau.bandcamp.com/

Emo is sometimes a hard sell for me but pretty much every Snape track has me saying things like 'whoa, this is great!' or 'this sounds like Adam & Eve-era Catherine Wheel!' so yeah

Holy shit, the closing track!!!

the Dashboard Album is not good.

lol i like it. particularly "About Us" and the single ("Heart Beat Here"). a couple other tracks already growing on me.

has a few tracks I liked yeah but overall idk.

just noticed that the PBtT album is available as a $1-or-more digital download from Bandcamp, with a special offer:

From now until February 19th, all Bandcamp sales from Pianos Become The Teeth's 'Wait For Love' digital downloads will benefit The Choice Program at UMBC. Name your price and Epitaph will match half your amount.

https://pianosbecometheteeth.bandcamp.com/album/wait-for-love

more punk than pop-punk I suppose but the new Turnstile album slaps

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/19/586158224/first-listen-turnstile-time-space

the (likely excellent) new Camp Cope album is also up at NPR.

came here to post about the Camp Cope, I'm really liking this

it kinda peters out near the end, but the first half is very strong

Both those Turnstile and Camp Cope albums are exceptional; great week for new music

Listening to awakebutstillinbed on repeat tonight.

There's an appropriately somber Manchester Orchestra/Julien Baker collab single out today, I assume it's a one-off.

and I just figured out it's a Pedro the Lion cover

this Camp Cope album is pretty much the only thing I feel like playing these days

at work and tearing up listening to I've Got You, damn

Camp Cope man, what a stunner of an album. I'm gonna need to listen 50 more times to absorb everything

i like this https://gulfer.bandcamp.com/album/dog-bless

I've wishlisted that. I like the interplay between math-y clean-tone guitars and melodic emo vocals.

Black Foxxes is out today - I've loved all the advance tracks so I'm exxpecting great things

the black foxxes record is so good. "the big wild" is such a rich and varied song

The second single off the new Wonder Years is much nicer than the first!

yeah it's pretty good! I wish the mix breathed more though (this was my complaint about the last couple as well, sigh)

I know what you mean - I think that's definitely something that holds them back... Still, excited for the album a bit more now

Not sure this is quiiite the right place for this, but I think people here can hopefully appreciate it and idk where else to put it and it's AMAZING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv55xffHjLk

love the extremely cure-ish guitar/synth counterpoint on this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPMXOSv7FVE

TT that Ling Tosite Sigure record slaps and absolutely belongs here

one of my favorite recent punk bands just broke up but they put out one last record and it's the best thing they've ever done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLZRQ9nEtw

https://donovanwolfingtonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/waves

whoa this album is unreal, thx brad!

i am extremely excited for the new underoath record even though the new songs are apparently really pissing off their fans lol. "on my teeth" reminds me of shining more than any previous underoath song, "rapture" sounds like something i'd hear in between three days grace and papa roach on the radio but it's still... real good imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlDVOIO1rIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysm2F1y4qFc

Still relistening to the Donovan Wolfington. it's really great, even the production/mixing is exceptional. honestly my only complaint is it's way too short, bittersweet note to go out on

That Gulfer LP has been a go-to for me the last couple of weeks. Thanks for the rec flopson

holy shit this Oceanator track is massive

https://soundcloud.com/tinyengines/oceanator-inhuman

Snail Mail's debut Lush is out this summer on Matador

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/592915364/songs-we-love-snail-mail-pristine

I really like the McCafferty record, Yarn, on first contact.

this isn't completely related to this thread except that it's kind of post-hardcore, but holy shit @ what the armed are doing on their new record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdT1CxS7DEE

woah, I guess I need to check out their debut

this isn't the right thread for this either, but new petal album in june

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqw330UaXXc

new Wonder Years is a disappointment; the attempts to broaden their sound with keys and post-punk drums just flattens everything and the specificity is almost completely gone

that band fuckin sucks anyway

lol sorry that was a little ott

it's just over the course of their last... idk, 2-3 records they've just really proven themselves incapable of realizing any potential they might've had. i thought they were maybe going somewhere interesting on no closer to heaven but half of that record was just really poorly executed versions of their usual thing

all of their attempts to expand their sound feel really empty bc there's nothing in the songwriting to back it up

anyway i love the new sellout underoath record

apparently these guys have been around forever but have never really taken off. their new album is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4EoX3NLOY

https://therepublicofwolves.bandcamp.com/album/shrine

attn mordy def check out this record ^^^

This is really good - this might sound weird but it sounds to me like a less dramatic / appealingly lower-stakes nu-Brand New album (and without the baggage)

not weird at all, dude's voice is def in that j*sse l*cey region

someone on a different message board pointed this out but they sound less like brand new than they do other bands that have been relentlessly compared to brand new (crime in stereo, "colored out" reminds me of driver friendly)

I feel a bit bad for dissing the Wonder Years album in the way I did since I read the p4k review (which highlighted some of the inspirations behind the record) but oh well

If anyone's had a screamo itch recently, you could do a hell of a lot worse than the Storm{O}'s Ere.

*strike the "the"

I just heard about the new Get Up Kids! Aaaaaaaaaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8nahxUxclk

Also, that Storm{0} album is excellent.

Also digging the Storm{O} album.

xxp - Wow, I woke up with '10 Minutes' in my head this morning. Nice coincidence!

who here loves mid-'90s emo a la hot water music and small brown bike? the fiddlehead record is for you https://fiddleheadma.bandcamp.com/album/springtime-and-blind

it's so good, when i heard the first song i said "this is like major key hoover"

I'm down with this

major key hoover otm. I absolutely love this.

This tweet is Panic! At The Disco approved 👏👏👏 https://t.co/owylfHNbse

— Panic! At The Disco (@PanicAtTheDisco) April 23, 2018

xp Fiddlehead - music's not bad, still looking for smoother vocals with that kind of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4EmRTtsw-k

I appreciate that the nostalgia cycle moves so fast that I'm in my 30s and young bands sound like the all ages matinees I would have gone to see late in high school.

idk which rolling genre thread meg myers actually fits into but i think everyone here will enjoy this really excellent song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIRxL7LPXk

feels like meg myers has been trying to figure her lane out for years, still not sure where she fits but that's probably a good thing. fiona apple is usually the closest i can pin to her.

numb sounds good, more anthemic than anything she's done i think.

i really liked a lot of her stuff off of sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqG9hsjLf3M

ha alright im on my 3rd spin and this is really good. super basic instrumental but it works idc.

i have listened to it oh let's say ten times in a row

she always has great videos sux there wasnt one with this right away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldg_HU4_3RU

is this the right thread for this? this band seems to bridge emo thread/shambhala thread territories and i'm looking forward to this album

How did I not notice there are two new Sparta songs? (They're OK.)

New Carb On Carb album for ages is great midwest-emo-revival plus NZ convergent evolution w/Camp Cope etc. "Mitimiti" is a great closer, and the two singles "It's Been A Rough Year" & "Nicole's Express" are highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEs198_gVQ

the worriers are great! thanks for that

new now, now record is only tangentially related to this thread but it's lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahcV_3oE6Q

and the remember sports record is great for anyone who misses p.s. eliot

anyone here into Typhoon? new album 'offerings' has all kind of styles but ultimately settles in somewhere around the manch orchestra sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a9Gt5DUQ9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4RNW3HkcQ
this one kiiiinda scratches my brand new itch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXDpGjnBm-Q

i've never heard of this band but i can't wait to check them out!

think you'll like it. listened to their back catalog and their older stuff doesnt sound like this. not nearly as good.

when they play @PanicAtTheDisco at the function 🤯 pic.twitter.com/X3hNDXXOpO

— DJ Dezzie Gee (@DezzieGee) May 20, 2018

new petal is great

Seconded. I'm about halfway through and loving it.

whoa, the new hopesfall tracks RULE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJYud7TV58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXQ6Pxs-Ls

:O

Oh that's weird, last time I was at my parents' house I took back The Satellite Years CD that I bought when I was young because I couldn't remember what the hell it was. It holds up quite well I think despite the post-rock and 'core elements jarring a bit at times.

Neither of those new songs do much for me but it's nice they're still around!

new Oso Oso single and b-side are great!

foxing is back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0PTxufF5I

https://i.imgur.com/vfhX5Z1.jpg

Wow, great song.

It sounds like... Postal Service? Not bad, mind.

New interview/feature in Stereogum makes it sound like quite something.

While the title track and “Bastardizer” are laser-lit, howl-and-point anthems that could conceivably elevate them to the status of alt-emo festival staples like Manchester Orchestra, Circa Survive, and pre-downfall Brand New — all of whom they’ve opened for — there’s not much contemporary comparison to the nine-minute ambient odyssey “Five Cups” or the IDM-goes-post-hardcore frenzy of “Gameshark” or “Heartbeats” merging swirling house rhythms with atmospheric post-rock guitars.

pre-downfall Brand New

certainly a way to put this

psyched for the record though, it is getting majorly hyped

though usually the records that ian really enthusiastically hypes i end up being pretty cool on (ex. harmlessness, goodness, surprised the foxing record doesn't end in "ness")

Senegal's Aliou Cissé with one of the great World Cup coaching celebrations. You may meme this if you would like, internets. pic.twitter.com/zVkaWiotky

— Miriti Murungi (@NutmegRadio) June 19, 2018

fuck that was for the world cup thread lol

that *is* exactly how i feel whenever i read things about the new foxing record so

also lol @ the bit about Chris Walla getting mad at them over the bagpipes

the new restorations record is outstanding!!! riyl: the gaslight anthem but powered by emo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igIWMlus4HQ

out in september

hearing both the national and the weakerthans in it too. it's awesome

oooh always dug these dudes but haven't heard much from them for a while

This sounds about perfect for me

i don't really know how to judge self defense family records but this seems pretty excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y4pkpHE8WQ

way cool

I have listened to "Slapstick" way too often for the Foxing album to be two godddamn months away

it's an incredible song

the new Mom Jeans songs are really fun, and they're touring w/ awakebutstillinbed so I might have to go see that

simon have you checked out that restorations song. idk why i think you'd like it but

I did! I like it!

hell yeah

They must have multiple vocalists? The guy on "Wales" is a dead ringer for Bry Webb.

i think it's all the one dude

but then i've only just gotten into this band with the new record lol

yeah it's the same guy! he has a bizarre range; there are moments on the new record where he sounds like matt berninger and gord downie combined

super weird, also made me realize I really miss the constantines

also checking out the Just Friends album since they're on the Mom Jeans/awake... show and WHAT IS THIS

like, Jeff Rosenstock meets the Go! Team with the occasional dash of pop and soul? and rapping?

made me realize I really miss the constantines

otm

For anyone interested, this excellent live Restorations set features most of their best older tunes plus provides a great view of their instrumentation (incl. one main vocalist, two backing, & drummer making drummer faces).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzcFCwO6pek

despite really liking the band I've never been able to shake the view that they basically come off like a bunch of dads who bought cool equipment with money from their day jobs and somehow made v good grownup dad-indie rock

sounds about right tbh

i wish i had known about lp3 when it came out, would've been totally obsessed with it

at least i'm totally obsessed with it now

lol @ the title of their new album

here's some good straight up rolling emo: the new album by charmer https://charmermusic.bandcamp.com/album/charmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4QxIAfkms

though it largely just makes me wish that look mexico would make another album tbh

despite really liking the band I've never been able to shake the view that they basically come off like a bunch of dads who bought cool equipment with money from their day jobs and somehow made v good grownup dad-indie rock

is this supposed to be ... bad?

Lol no just an observation

this foxing song sounds nothing like brand new to me, but it's pretty solid

Speaking of Weakerthans, did anyone hear the solo record from John? I think the weakerthans disbanded awhile back

winter wheat? it's great

Winter Wheat is wonderful. Samson is a terrific lyricist.

Digging that Charmer record. Good looking out. Really does scratch a very specific itch.

john's put out TWO solo records guys!

the first one is less good than winter wheat iirc

maaaybe less emo than before (hence why I bumped the indiepop thread initially) but the new Trust Fund is so good https://trustfund.bandcamp.com

the new Mom Jeans throws in just enough fun surprises (guitar heroics, horns, multipart songs) to distinguish itself

The first John K Samson album has The Last And, a Virtute-level hearttugger, inspired by The Simpsons' Krabappel/Skinner romance. Stylus has an article about some of that album's song origins. A favorite lyricist, love his small details and viewpoints.

new thrice album palms in september :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITe3Jh-cBhM

btw "the last and" is an AMAZING jks song and i should spend more time with provincial, thank you scampering alpaca

still can't get past the Thrice guy's Grohly vox tbh

some cool riffs tho

his vocals don't read as grohly to me but i sorta get what you mean anyway

I lost track of Thrice once they took their proggy turn. I should revisit some of that stuff. I feel more open to that kind of thing than I was when it came out initially.

does that mean you haven't heard vheissu or beggars? bc those are their best. (beggars is kind of a "have our cake and eat it too" recession from prog while the songs get deeper and darker still)

my fav thrice song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mSFNDtSwrE

my fave thrice song :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZUG_3JVgXs

apparently a song on the new thrice features guest vocals by emma ruth rundle :O

to my considerable surprise i like the new real friends album (out friday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7I6J_cRr4E

recommended if you miss the starting line a lot

made that joke without realizing the starting line reunited

I listened to vheissu and didn't like it at the time but could probably revisit. I was a really big The Artist and The Ambulance guy. A listened to the one after Vheissu and small bits and pieces after that. You very rarely steer me wrong Brad, so I'll give em all another chance.

Beggars was good, Brad posted the best song for suure.

the hopesfall record is AMAZING

emo song of the year

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

oh man that sounds perfectly 2006.

can't stop listening to the real friends record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oG1XDYVGU

Do we include things like the new Ostraca record in this thread. Emoviolence is still emo, right? And this is probably their most trad emo so far maybe.

ours is a diverse church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-eCgtpQ9Y

NEW JOYCE MANOR IN SEPTEMBER ALERT

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

amazing, was thinking the other day it was about time

i should start a joyce manor thread

you should, or an album poll?

oh lol i didn't see that until after i made it

new foxing today too, it is.... wow https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/07/18/629466219/hear-foxings-soaring-nearer-my-god-in-5-different-languages

vox on the Joyce Manor single are a little sleepy but otherwise sounds great. "You're an asshole from a bar on a break in a break room, and you've never happy..."

the second Foxing single is fucking great, hearing all five versions in a row was a delight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSqNg8xdk_c

god i love this song

Restorations and JM playing here on back to back nights, blessed times

i'm putting out an album the same month as joyce manor and it's extremely weird for me bc they're one of the reasons i'm in a band at all

!!!

whoa brad awesome

way more bands should do the multiple-language thing! listening to the versions back to back on a loop has been extremely zen

i love "slapstick" and "nearer my god" SO MUCH

I've listened to both a frankly embarrassing # of times

give me the fuckin album already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNvSNPR-Bs

well that is fucking outstanding

weirdly reminds me of qotsa

and early mars volta

imago to thread

I admit my first thought was Muse

should i make a thread for the foxing record

yes imo we have a lot of geeking out to do

new basement song! they're on fbr now????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug1ZNRwcF84

that song is so jimmy eat world

they don't seem to get nearly as much chatter as a lot of bands in this world, but i think that last Basement album is damn near perfect.

I keep going back to the Mom Jeans record - a much more creative and diverse variant on a lot of superficially similar records I've heard this year

another new Restorations jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PrT9LekCds

Thin Lips record is very good. Some pretty Doug Martsch-y guitar tones here and there, and I love the vocals.

https://xxthinlipsxx.bandcamp.com/

"Saying Yes" sounds alarmingly like an outtake from the Partner album. Good record!

i guess i can tell y'all that mewithoutyou are putting out my album of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgCTwTV-IQ4

you got the album scoop? I only see stuff about the single.

xp I like that a lot!

you got the album scoop? I only see stuff about the single.

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, August 16, 2018 5:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shh but yes. info will be out soon enough tho

i guess i can tell y'all that mewithoutyou are putting out my album of the year

sure, but your album of the century?

that too

http://eisley.com/SA/SAY_ANYTHING%E2%80%93%E2%80%93A_GOODBYE_SUMMATION.pdf

and turns out the new say anything song is actually real good

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

the initial analogue i've thought of for the mewithoutyou album is a future lived in past tense

anyway they dropped a surprise ep today that’s basically just as good as the album that comes out in early october

https://mewithoutyou.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-e-p-2

i think the tracklist for the album is totally amazing

1. 9:27a.m., 7/29
2. Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
3. Another Head for Hydra
4. [dormouse sighs]
5. Winter Solstice
6. Flee, Thou Matadors!
7. Tortoises All the Way Down
8. 2,459 Miles
9. Wendy & Betsy
10. New Wine, New Skins
11. Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
12. Break on Through (to the Other Side) [pt. Two]

i should make a thread for it at this point but i'm p sure it'd sink like a stone

I will probably buy it just for the packaging

I miss The Starting Line every day (even if they're back together) and that Real Friends song has killed me

Catching up on everything itt since the end of March and I am having the best time! Other highlights so far: Hopesfall, Charmer and Oso Oso (I like my emo as unambiguous as possible).

That new Ostraca EP is sounding wonderful too. They were high up my metal ballot last year and I expect will be on there again.

been sleeping on Oso Oso, whenever i saw the name i just assumed it was chillwave

the initial analogue i've thought of for the mewithoutyou album is a future lived in past tense

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, August 17, 2018 2:12 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait, WHAT?!?

it's not quite that far out but it gives me the same feeling

Antarctigo Vespucci (Farren + Rosenstock) formally signed to Polyvinyl and are touring in the fall

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/antarctigo-vespucci-sign-to-polyvinyl-announce-tour-with-katie-ellen/

don't die die die die die in your hometowwwwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZkGpj2w0XE

for those with a love for screamo, the Gillian Carter album out today is really strong - fantastic cover art, too

got around to listening to the recent Senses Fail album. not bad.
any recommendations of something with that sort of guitar work and melody, but minus the screamo?

don't know what to call his stuff anymore, but the new Fred Thomas songs are fantastic

Brad, et al: Last night I listened to an album, Communication Breaks by Track Star, which I adored back in the day but had forgotten about for over a decade, and it rocked me. But judging by its YT views, it's all but forgotten by everyone. Track Star was Wyatt from Aislers Set and a friend. It's punky emo-y stuff with embittered lyrics (that also manage to be witty and winsome) and an awesome warbly piano-y guitar tone (on the lead guitar) that i love. Overall reminds me of (unsurprisingly) Henry's Dress but less outright punk. I'd like to know what you guys think. From 1999 I think. (Sorry if this thread is just supposed to be new stuff. Is it??)

The album is on YT. I'll post the opener

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

i've posted old stuff before here! looking forward to checking this out, thank you!

Was surprised to find this on Spotify - it slaps!

The new Vespucci single is up and quite nice

idk who these assholes think they are but this is some pretty good shit

https://faithvoid.bandcamp.com/

lmao

(thank you <3)

this is great, congrats!

Fantastic, powerful stuff! It makes me feel good pain. I so needed this today!

Faith/Void is album of the year, easily.

And 'Theme from "Embrace Nothingness" (part two)' is fucking everything. Straight to the gut. Anthemic.

It reminds me hardcore of Desaparecidos, especially the vocals from 2.29 on goddamn... My emo-scope may be that of a novice, but it's a compliment ok? Song of the year. Fuck.

pls your and play the venue Faith/Void in TO!!

this is beyond great. wanted to go to bushwick public house last weekend but had already gotten Sumac tix before I knew about any of this. however, on the way to that show a bus I was on didn't move for a very long period of time and "fuck this!" really resonated. anyhow, next time

It reminds me hardcore of Desaparecidos, especially the vocals from 2.29 on goddamn... My emo-scope may be that of a novice, but it's a compliment ok? Song of the year. Fuck.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, September 9, 2018 2:36 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huge compliment for me, i learned how to scream by singing along with desaparecidos (and also early taking back sunday and straylight run, john nolan is sorta my ideal tuneful screamer)

also omg thank you all

fuck this! is an anthem

Was J-Church an influence? It gives me some early J-Church vibes at times. I love it BTW

i love the few j church songs i've heard but i've never quite managed to crack the discography! they're def an ambient influence though (i think our guitarist is pretty into them)

<3 j church

oh shit somehow I glossed over brad's band! will listen

Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (part Two)
Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (part Two)
Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (part Two)
Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (part Two)
Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (part Two)

This fucking song... As the kids say these days: "I just (cannot)..."

as I said previously in this thread, I love Basement. they're more '90s than so many bands that get tagged as '90s revivalists:

https://youtu.be/BVqK717FUiY

^ that's another new song from their new album, btw, i should've mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRx-M_qg5H8

^^^ this is the shit

new Restorations streaming at NPR

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/649212230/first-listen-restorations-lp5000

new piece on the Pinegrove situation

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/reckoning-with-pinegrove/

...and Skylight is apparently being quietly released this Friday

tbh that piece mostly just made me feel very sorry for the band. The response doesn't seem commensurate with the "offense" at all even though it was completely understandable that the other bands, etc. just wanted to do the right thing by their respective fanbases. Just a mess all around.

it's weird to me that they're finally putting out the album in two days but fine i guess

Kind of a weird piece. I enjoyed it but the more I thought about it the more issues seemed to build. Like it really seems like she wants the band exonerated throughout a good chunk of the piece which is a weird way to approach this.

Also, say what you want about Sheridan Allen, but she got the dude some therapy and kickstarted a mediation process so it seems a little much to throw her under the bus entirely. (She definitely had some issues with how she approached this and ethics violations don't get me wrong)

if there's a better thread for this, someone point me to it, but: has anyone here been to The Fest in Gainesville? good experience or too-big shitshow (or somewhere in between)?

I've always wanted to go.

i’ve gone annually for the past few years! it’s totally worth it and awesome if you’re on its wavelength of drinking pbr nonstop for three days (it’s also p awesome if you’re sober i imagine i’ve just never tried it). there are a lot of ppl and it grows every year so it can be hard to get into certain shows (mostly by popular or hyped bands) if you don’t line up early bc of venue capacity. but also if you don’t get in there’s probably another awesome show a five minute walk away. it’s also a v welcoming and not v annoying crowd; i can barely deal with punks at new york punk shows but fest punks are v chill and cool for the most part in my experience, sorta like hanging out with friends you haven’t met yet

one of the things they dialed down last year were the secret midnight-4am shows at the holiday inn which was a bummer, those were one of the best parts of fest, but all of the other hotels also usually have something going on during those hours

if you go pls treat yourself to reggae shack and boca, my two favorite restaurants

thanks Brad ... so are all the venues w/in walking distance of each other? or most, at least?

those are my favorite kind of festivals ... so much better than "let's all go stand in a field"

yeah it's spread between 9-10 venues that are all in walking distance of each other (though they're a 10-20 minute walk from any nearby hotel) and agreed, it's a much better experience

also gainesville kinda empties out that weekend so it is temporarily almost 100 percent populated by punks

the only way in which fest feels like a "too-big shitshow" is the very very very long line for wristbands on the first day, but everyone kinda drinks their way through that line and the fest organizers always bring pizza by

thanks. sounds rad. xpost: that reminds me of going to Psycho Las Vegas 3 years ago at the Hard Rock Casino and the population inside the place for the wknd was literally like 94% black-and-leather-clad metalheads and 6% millennial bachelorette party-goers wandering the grounds in clubwear and/or pajamas. it was amazing.

lmao vegas is my hometown and i think i debates going to that. metalheads still my fav kind of festival crowd, maryland death fest is all good and generous vibes

no idea which thread it falls in but the viagra boys album is p sweet
lol doesnt sound a great endorsement but reminds me of the men meets electric 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUiMWQ5B_8

this band is great even though they sound exactly like microwave

also i am suddenly v hyped for the new john nolan solo record. the last minute or so of this @_@

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noj66DHjTEs

new owel!!! https://www.thewildhoneypie.com/buzzing-daily/owel-i-saw-red

album called paris, out next march

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

reminder that this album is tight

All Get Out and John Nolan records both out today. Currently checking out the Drug Church album, which seems to be good burly fun

iron chic / toys that kill split coming, 2 tracks available now

https://recessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/iron-chic-toys-that-kill-split-lp

going to see LIFETIME and Give tonight, extremely stoked even if the punk-cred venue will have crypt sound

seeing lifetime live is one of the best things you can do with yourself, have a great time hoos

this is very good to hear

john nolan record is pretty much as good as the last two tbs records and def the best thing he's put out by himself since straylight run. i'm thrilled

New Envy is here! I hope this means a new album is on the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwyVBeOb5Y8&fbclid=

Lifetime was great but GIVE really knocked my socks off

that rules

also holy shit new envy???

Good to read that Lifetime is still going. Hope they find the time/inspiration to record a new album, the 2007 album was great.

Is this the thread where I can talk about Drug Church? I had no idea there was a new album, & then yesterday I checked Wikipedia to see how many years it had been since their last album, and it turns out the answer was: .00274 years

They're touring on back of a new single that they encored with

"Sorry, that's the whole set, we didn't rehearse any other songs we wrote twenty years ago"

Xp

oh hey there's a new Mineral song

whoa

!

can't think of another band that sounds quite like this drug church record even though it's reminding me of a lot of related things. it kicks ass

maybe they deserve their own thread

if you live long enough
you'll do something wrong enough
that you'll feel shame enough
to say enough's enough

i am no punk rock expert, but to me Drug Church feels like Fucked Up meets the Pixies

true but it also feels like more than the sum of those parts

certainly ... i posted that after listening to 2 songs, lol

literally found that record by browsing glenn's Spotify Sorting Hat, never actually heard of them before!

thanks for posting about Drug Church, really good

I get a Leatherface kinda vibe from them, vocally, also Wilderness which is weird/unexpected

leatherface vocals is right on

god i love leatherface

ooh yeah good call

"unlicensed guidance counselor" reminds me of the greatest band of all time, lifter puller

I love lftrpllr so much

“avoidarama” is the BEST song

fuck this is one of the best albums of the year

It's particularly nice to hear Patrick shouting again -- on the basis of this year's disappointingly subdued Self-Defense Family record, I was afraid his voice might be shot.

i love that sdf record but agreed in a general sense

PUSHED YOUR SISTER’S BOYFRIEND DOWN THE STAIRS

thread of cheer by drug church, punk album of the year 2018

i had forgotten about leatherface, listening to Mush now and it's overwhelming, so good

^^^this was me when Dickie Hammond died a few years ago

mush is the best album ever

a huge influence on my band

well this is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryqMS4HhbA

i feel like i'm the only person who has noticed how many bangers are on this year's dashboard confessional album

it's got a few good songs but is really disjointed idk

it's front half heavy but so many good singalongs

I have to admit that despite (because of?) their intensely one-note grey po-faced approach I've probably listened to the Pianos Become the Teeth album the most of any emo-sector record this year. a lot of stuff didn't connect for one reason or another, I didn't even really get into the Vespucci after all, mainly because Farren bores me as a lyricist/frontperson too much of the time

my emo cru-and-adjacent faves this year in no particular order

PbtT
Drug Church
Mewithoutyou
Fred Thomas
awakebutstillinbed
Joyce Manor
Tiny Moving Parts
Donovan Wolfington
Closer
Mom Jeans
Slow Mass
Foxing
Super Unison

i rate foxing and awakebutstillinbed v highly. gonna add boygenius, the dashboard and snail mail.

i probably forgot 10000 things but here's my top 15 emo edition

mewithoutyou: untitled
drug church: cheer
rolo tomassi: time will die and love will bury it
foxing: nearer my god
fall out boy: m a n i a
john nolan: abendigo
joyce manor: million dollars to kill me
saves the day: 9
restorations: lp5000
now, now: saved
self defense family: have you considered punk music
black foxxes: reiði
hopesfall: arbiter
remember sports: slow buzz
real friends: composure

i did forget something which is fiddlehead!!!! put that above john nolan

i also forgot coheed, which: the album ended up being kind of monotonous but the individual songs are soooooo good

yeah I listen to my edited version a lot but I had to slash a solid half-hour to make the pacing acceptable

is the new saves the day good!!!!

also yes that super unison rules

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.

These emo year-end lists are great! I'll think of mine this weekend and listen to everything I missed

is the new saves the day good!!!!

― 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XkwbW-wU8&list=PLxwHtUHlFZ5HGH24MCAVHtHbKRi9ERZeP
has 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

erm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XkwbW-wU8&list=PLxwHtUHlFZ5HGH24MCAVHtHbKRi9ERZeP

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

New Astronoid single is very cute!

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_1Rn0brSxs
https://kermes.bandcamp.com/

They absolutely slay live, seriously go see them if you get a chance.

That's great. Nothing says queerpunk like naming your song after a Maggie Nelson book, lol

great song

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

This Culture Abuse album is some ultra-sunny pop punk:

https://cultureabuse.bandcamp.com/album/bay-dream

^^ 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

new copeland album next year

*spottie bat signal*

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.

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

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.

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

already feels gloomier and thicker than ixora which i am absolutely here for

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

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

wow wish i still lived in NYC tbph so i could go to that

not emo exactly but related: laura stevenson is dropping an album tomorrow

which, thank god, i'm so happy

"just" a double a-side, as it turns out

https://laurastevenson.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystic-the-master

lol i wish spotify wouldn’t classify albums so broadly

still, psyched

well, those two laura stevenson songs are two of her very best, i’m very excited for a whole album to sound like them

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

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...

Woah, good looking out

I'll leave it to brad to start the 2019 thread but the two new Mineral songs are great

kinda having thread-naming block but i'll start it soon