Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good // Braid - Frame and Canvas // Get Up Kids - 4 Minute Mile //

The higlight of Four Minute Mile, though, is the least emo sounding song - the total Weezer one where he goes "Oh Amy / Don't hate me / for running away from you" or whatever with that synth riff. Didn't the synth player break apart and form Reggie & The Full Effect?

I saw The Get-Up Kids reunion show on their Euro tour last september. They were still quite good but had gotten significantly older. They ended their set with that Oh Amy-song and Ten Minutes from Something To Write Home About.

I recently found out that Rop Pope, TGUK's bassplayer, is also playing bass in Spoon (who are one of my favorite bands since the last two years).

frame and canvas STILL sounds good imo

some of the best and most consistent drumming, also. wholehearted recommendation to young drummers looking to be awesome

Aye.

"You're painting floors while your pals are renaming the stars / get up, get up, and go do what you started / if you want to be a martyr - try harder!"

love this:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21125-nothing-feels-good/

The world of Nothing Feels Good doesn't pinpoint specific, identifiable emotions. It is a state of being, one where an overactive mind and overstimulated body are aren’t exactly at war, but struggling to attain common ground. It’s feeling like your heart is pumping Mountain Dew straight to your brain and your central nervous system can’t be trusted. Davey von Bohlen himself is at a loss for words to describe it: many of Nothing Feels Good’s inscrutable, quotable lyrics are a result of internal miscommunication: "I got my hands on the one hand, and I don’t know where to put them", "I married a room, where I’ll at least keep my hands in order", "how do I explain your body to the rest of my day?"

of these three records, frame and canvas