Taking Meds

Taking Meds are a four-piece post-hardcore band from Rochester, New York that began in 2012. They were formed by members of Such Gold, and though the pop punk influence does peak through in their sound, they are far more rooted in the 90's throwback amalgamation of post-hardcore, math rock, and straight up hardcore punk. Their most notable release, I Hate Me was released in 2019, and features a wide array of sounds the band experiments, which can perhaps best be surmised by the phrase "catchy dissonance", though that doesn't quite capture the record's diverse offerings. Enjoy.

Demo (2013)

1. Summer Of Down

2. Jim Jones

3. The Biesel Blues

Roller Coaster (2015)

1. Roller Coaster (blink-182 cover)

My Life As A Bro (2016)

1. Taking Meds

2. I Only Want To Listen To My Own Band

3. Hole In Hand

4. Crash In My Place

5. Blue Shirt Boogie

6. Comfort In Poor Planning

7. Busy Schedule

8. County Border Bars

My Moon Is Always Full Promo (2018)

1. My Moon Is Always Full

2. Discount Furniture

3. Summer Of Down (Acoustic Version)

4. I Miss You (Blink-182 Cover?)

There's No Way/Stealing Is Healing (2019)

1. There's No Way

2. Stealing Is Healing

I Hate Me (2019)

1. Big Fish

2. I Hate Me

3. Stranger Who Stares

4. The Problem

5. There's No Way

6. I Hate You

7. Lifer

8. Tough Guy

9. Somebody's Gotta Hold Me

10. Inseverable

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Current

Current were a post-hardcore/emo band from Dearborn, Michigan that were around from 1992 to 1994. I have very little info on this band, to be honest. Aside from their years active, they put out a discography LP on Council Records, a label run by one of its band members posthumously. Current are best remembered for their sole seminal LP, Coliseum, as well as their split with the legendary Indian Summer pre-legendary status. Members of Current were also active in another band called Ottawa. If you're looking for an early marriage of hardcore and emo that pre-dates screamo as we know it, you're in the right place. Enjoy.

Discography (1998)

1. Basis

2. Repetition

3. Continued Rantings

4. Overbearing

5. Leech

6. Bastille

7. Frayed Ends

8. Monument

9. Key

10. Representation

11. Dial

12. Pave

13. Bag Of Threads

14. Two And a Dime

15. Ruin

16. Outside Is Better

17. Coliseum

18. She Can't Write

19. Hark

20. Member

21. Could I

22. Silvered Lead

23. Come Down

24. Left At The Right

Note: 

Tracks 1 - 4 from Is 4 EP (1995)

Track 5 - 7 from various compilations (1995-1996)

Track 8 from Chino Horde split (1994)

Track 9 from Indian Summer split ((1993)

Track 10 - 20 from Coliseum LP (1993)

Tracks 21 - 24 from Could I EP (1992)

The Crownhate Ruin

The Crownhate Ruin were a short-lived post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C., that were active from 1994 to 1996. The band consisted of ex-members of Hoover (immediately after that band's break-up) and 1.6 Band. Members later went on to play in June of 44. If you could place a sound between the two aforementioned bands, The Crownhate Ruin hit that fix. Their sole LP came out on Dischord Records, a discordant, off-beat affair with heavy emphasis on bass/drum riffage. It never quite hits the intensive highs of Hoover, but certainly deserves a repeat listen, as it is an undeniably underrated LP. Enjoy.

Elementary (1995)

1. Lesson In Thread

2. Pioneers

Intermediate (1995)

1. Every Minute's Sucker

2. Better Still If They Don't Know

A Primer (1995)

1. Present To President

2. Last Place In Triage

3. My Country Getaway

Until The Eagle Grins (1996)

1. Ride Your Ride

2. Late Arriving Rock Dudes

3. Stretched Too Thin

4. In The Four Years To Come

5. Every Minute Sucker

6. Tornado Season Finale

7. Better Still If They Don't Know

8. Piss Alley

9. You Will Wish Me Dead

10. Blood Relative

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Infant Island

Infant Island are a five-piece screamo band from Fredericksburg, Virginia that began in 2016. You might be familiar with this band from the incredible track "Further" I premiered a few years back, and from the incredible self-titled LP that track came off. Without a doubt. Infant Island have cemented themselves as one of the most notable and formidable screamo acts kicking around the present tense, and they are revving up to unleash another LP very soon, titled Beneath, courtesy of the always-incredible Dog Knights Productions. Prior to that, I figured we'd take a trip down memory lane of their already-legendary discography, as a stark reminder the screamo is alive and well and why we all got into the genre in the first place. Enjoy.

Quick update: I had started this post a while back prior to Beneath coming out. It's out, and definitely one of the best releases I've ever heard this year, so check it out ASAP.

Infant Island/smallhands (2017)

1. Infant Island - Diminish

2. Infant Island - Fall Into Their Hell (Demo)

3. smallhands - Coby's Piano (Demo)

4. smallhands - Plastic Sheets (Demo)

Where There Is Ruin (2018)

1. Where There Is Ruin

Infant Island (2018)

1. Small Differences

2. Replenish

3. Broken Pieces

4. Fall

5. Diminish

6. A Preoccupation

7. Further

Frail Body/Infant Island/Massa Nera/Dianacrawls (2019)

1. Frail Body - Fixed

2. Infant Island - Death Portrait

3. Massa Nera - Nunca Seremos lo Mismo

4. Dianacrawls - Melancholia

5. Dianacrawls - Kinky Kills

6. Dianacrawls - Cycle of the Abused

Sepulcher (2020)

1. Burrow

2. Unspoken

3. Phantom Wines

4. Awoken

5. Sepulcher

Beneath (2020)

1. Here We Are

2. Signed In Blood

3. Content

4. The Garden

5. One Eyed

6. Death Portrait

7. Colossal Air

8. Stare Spells

9. Someplace Else

Obsidian Wreath (2024)

1. Another Cycle

2. Fulfilled

3. Found Hand

4. Clawing, Still

5. Veil

6. Amaranthine

7. With Shadow

8. Unrelenting

9. Kindling

10. Vestygian

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