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Spanish Love Songs: Brave Faces Everyone

February 19, 2020

It’s like someone wrote the word “emo” on a blackboard and said “go!” And Spanish Love Songs took the assignment very seriously. Like super-seriously. But first they...

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Proper.: I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better

August 30, 2019

Oh to be gay, black and emo. Yes it's a hook, a differentiator for this fifth-wave emo band. Or is it sixth wave at this point? Whatever the case, the unGooglable...

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Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties: Routine Maintenance

August 28, 2019

There is this funny world that some indie rock bands like Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties inhabits. It’s this Americana-cum-emo thing that has clearly gently...

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American Football: American Football [LP3]

March 25, 2019

I’ve gone on record to express my dispassionate shrug for American Football and their brand of nutless emo-ism. It’s not that I don’t appreciate their musicality...

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Sorority Noise: You’re Not As _____ As You Think

April 15, 2017

"We all bow to the emo Jesus!" So begins track one on Sorority Noise's third album, You're Not As _____ As You Think. Okay, that's totally not true, but it migh...

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The Hotelier: Goodness

January 18, 2017

Let's talk about spoken-word shit. Actually, let's not talk about spoken-word shit. Even if The Hotelier somehow thinks this most high school of emotive communi...

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The Hotelier: It Never Goes Out

March 25, 2015

I feel like someone is going to pop out any second and knock my iPhone from my hand while listening to this album and scream, "What the fuck are you listening t...

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Dashboard Confessional: The Swiss Army Romance

January 25, 2015

Screaming homosexualities! Oh sorry, I can't help but feel kinda, um, chick-like listening to this album. Some will brand this "emo," but I can't help but call ...

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Dashboard Confessional: The Drowning ep

January 25, 2015

There are some seriously cringe-worthy lyrics on this combination ep. I believe he asks the deep question, "So, sneakers or flip-flops? I'm starting to panic!" ...

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The Appleseed Cast: The End of the Ring Wars

January 7, 2015

If you like Sunny Day Real Estate and want the cuts that didn't make any of their albums, then this is the LP for you. In fact, Appleseed Cast sounds a lot like...

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Dads: I’ll Be the Tornado

November 11, 2014

Something about Jersey inspires emotion. Very seldom do you get bands from The Jerz that don't either tug at those emo heartstrings -- like the original screamo...

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Braid: No Coast

August 12, 2014

I was honestly a little skeptical of what seemed like another nineties band trying to revisit similar territory they once pwned decades earlier. I mostly squint...

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Joyce Manor: Never Hungover Again

August 12, 2014

There is something so perfectly nostalgic about this album for me that it escapes description. Maybe it's like hanging out in a sweaty house in Van Nuys in the ...

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The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There

April 13, 2014

Who says emo's dead? Certainly not the nice young men from Worcester, MA who are, pardon my French, emo as fuck. Lest you think this is a slight, I miss the day...

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The Fire Theft: The Fire Theft

December 3, 2009

It’s like an adult Sunny Day Real Estate, complete with strings and soaring-ness (if that was in any way a real word). The album somehow reminds me of cotillion...

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The Good Life: Black Out

May 2, 2009

This album starts off on a serious high note with the kooky swing song, "The Beaten Path," that is somehow totally different and totally the same as every Cursi...

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The Anniversary: Your Majesty

November 24, 2008

This one is less swinging than their debut, Designing a Nervous Breakdown, eliminating the wacky keyboard and going after a more authentic, retro sound. They en...

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The Anniversary: Designing a Nervous Breakdown

November 24, 2008

Welcome to the world of emo power-pop. Combining the whimsy of The Rentals and the typical Get Up Kids emoting, The Anniversary seem to go to the emo well a lit...

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