The Last Forty Seconds

"I wish I had stayed, I do". I spent the last wracking my brain and come up with the perfect band this year, and began to look back. This little tradition began in 2013 with The Saddest Landscape and Her Breath On Glass, which to this day are virtually uncontested in their appropriateness for the holiday. Naturally, I had to include the band Andy Maddox was in prior to the aforementioned, which makes them the perfect band to bury your head in your hands to today. That absent feeling in your chest will be there forever, but at least this might distract from the loneliness today. I also included a list of all previous instalments at the bottom in case this flatlining of your heart wasn't enough. Don't enjoy.

The Last Forty Seconds were a three-piece screamo band from Northampton, Massachusetts that were around from 1999 to 2001. Sonically, they are loosely comparable to classic screamo acts such as Portraits Of Past and You And I. This band is especially notable from its line-up, which includes members involved in a ton of other incredible projects, including Ampere, Wolves, Montcalm, and Ritual Mess, in addition to the aforementioned The Saddest Landscape and Her Breath On Glass. Fans of any of those should definitely check this out, as they recall (though they pre-date) the cathartic melancholy of The Saddest Landscape and visceral dissonance of Ampere. What more could you want for today's mourning? Looking back only makes the future look bleaker. Happy V-Day.

Demo (1999)

1. Tristessa

2. What I Like To Do In My Spare Time

3. Consumed

4. Third Time Is Never The Charm

The Last Forty Seconds (2000)

1. I Felt A Funeral In My Brain

2. The Third Time Is Never The Charm

3. Number Eight

4. My Favorite Actor

5. Cutting Down The Glare

6. Waking From The Dreamdate

The Last Forty Seconds/Sundowner (2001)

1. The Last Forty Seconds - Tristessa

2. The Last Forty Seconds - ...And Never Let Go

3. Sundowner - Bullet Gone Astray

4. Sundowner - Innocent By-Stander

The Last Forty Seconds/A Trillion Barnacle Lapse (2001)

1. The Last Forty Seconds - Open Letter To Anestheist

2. The Last Forty Seconds - Where Were You On The Nineteenth

3. A Trillion Barnacle Lapse - Tips To Conceive A Typing Instructor

4. A Trillion Barnacle Lapse - The Active Ingredients Of A Home Appliance Rebellion

5. A Trillion Barnacle Lapse - I Am A Xerox Machine, But My Father Said He Was The Same When He Was My Age

Previous Installments

The Saddest Landscape / Her Breath On Glass (2013)

iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook (2014)

You And I (2015)

Love Lost But Not Forgotten (2016)

In Loving Memory (2017)

Kite Flying Society (2018)

The Khayembii Communiqué (2019)

Harrison Bergeron (2020)