Balance And Composure

So I just realized that I mentioned these guys in the last four posts I've done, and was shocked when I realized I didn't have a post on them already, so here we go.

Balance And Composure are a five-piece post-hardcore band from Doylestown, Pennsylvania that formed in 2007. A couple of them played in a band called The Erection Kids (who were very pop punk-oriented), and a few other bands. After they disbanded, B&C were formed. They took influence from bands such as Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, and Texas Is The Reason, as well as Nirvana, Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, American Football, Small Brown Bike, The Appleseed Cast, and Neutral Milk Hotel (name dropping errywhere). These guys are brilliant at what they do, seamlessly integrating catharsis, melody, grit, gentle noodling arpeggios and crushing, distorted walls of chords. They fuse so many things into their perfect dynamic, and they're so effective because of it. These guys are probably one of my favourite bands around now, and they've got a new full-length coming out this year which I'm really stoked on. They're also really tight live, so check them out.

I Just Want To Be Pure (2008)

1. I Just Want To Be Pure

2. Weak Man, Weak Boy

3. Alone For Now

4. Waiting, Thinking, Giving Up

5. Pull Of The Ground

6. Chapter 20

No Sleep 'Till Christmas (2008)

10. Weak Man, Weak Boy (Christmas Version)

Only Boundaries (2009)

1. I Can't Do This Alone

2. Only Boundaries

3. Show Your Face

4. What's Wrong With Everything

Balance And Composure/Tigers Jaw (2010)

1. Balance And Composure - Kaleidoscope

2. Balance And Composure - Burden

3. Balance And Composure - Twenty Four

4. Balance And Composure - Rope

5. Tigers Jaw - Lodging

6. Tigers Jaw - Jet Alone

7. Tigers Jaw - Danielson

8. Tigers Jaw - Dent

No Sleep 'Till Christmas 3 (2010)

7. Away In A Manger

Separation (2011)

1. Void

2. Separation

3. Quake

4. Stonehands

5. I Tore You Apart In My Head

6. Galena

7. Fade

8. Progress, Progress

9. More To Me

10. Echo

11. Patience

12. Defeat The Low

Mixed Signals (2011)

2. Seahorses

Full compilation here

Acoustic 7" (2012)

1. Separation

2. Stonehands

3. More To Me

Braid/Balance And Composure (2013)

1. Braid - Lux

2. Braid - Many Enemies

3. Balance And Composure - You Can't Fix Me

4. Balance And Composure - Say

The Things We Think We're Missing (2013)

1. Parachutes

2. Lost Your Name

3. Back Of Your Head

4. Tiny Raindrop

5. Notice Me

6. Ella

7. Cut Me Open

8. Reflection

9. I'm Swimming

10. When I Come Undone

11. Dirty Head

12. Keepsake

13. Enemy

Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation (2013)

15. Why Do You Leave Us

Note: Full comp here

Tiny Raindrop B-Side (2014)

1. Tiny Raindrop B-Side (Stripped down version)

Light We Made (2016)

1. Midnight Zone

2. Spinning

3. Afterparty

4. For A Walk

5. Mediocre Love

6. Postcard

7. Call It Losing Touch

8. Fame

9. Is It So Much To Adore

10. Loam

Too Quick To Forgive (2023)

1. Savior Mode

2. Last To Know

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