rolling emo/pop-punk/embarrassing music 2018

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.

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