rolling emo/pop-punk/embarrassing music 2018

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