1. Blind
2. Attempt
3. Injection
4. Ordinary
5. Cathode
6. Basterdiser
7. Repress
8. Attempt
9. Repress (Live)
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Acme
Friday, 15 July 2022
Sailboats
It's absolutely insane that it took this long for this band to finally making an appearance on here. I figured for years that I had done a post on them way back, but alas was sorely mistaken. Regardless, this gem of a document is finally in the archive. As you might know, Sailboats were a very short-lived screamo band from Berkeley, California that were around from 2002 to 2003. They only released one official two-song demo and that was it. There is some speculation regarding another two-song demo often attributed to their name, but it really doesn't sound like them and no official information has come out confirming it is them. They also allegedly recorded a full-length. If it does exist, seeing as we haven't heard it by now, I doubt we ever will. Regardless, these two songs, particularly "Behind Trees" is a masterclass in screamo.
Now, a major reason this band is still talked about is because two of its three members formed Loma Prieta shortly after the dissolution of Sailboats, with drummer Val Saucedo (also of Punch fame) is still a member to this day. Even years post-Sailboats, Loma would still occasionally play "Behind Trees" live, even after building up an incredible discography of their own, that's how much of a standout track it is. It's pretty rare to come across a project like this, as it balances both being an intriguing historical document while also making for a great listen that holds up years later. I'm still dumbfounded as to how this slipped through the cracks for this long (especially considering how short and easy it'd be), but glad it's finally found its place here. Enjoy.
1. Behind Trees
2. 2
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
The Anniversary
The Anniversary are a five-piece emo/indie band from Lawrence Kansas that formed in 1997 and broke up in 2004. They have since played reunion shows in 2016, 2020 and 2022. This is another band that can be filed in the "way overdue" category, as their debut is commonly cited as an emo "classic", and one of the few releases with that accolade I have yet to cover. The band does skew to the poppier side of emo, more in the vein of bands like The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids and Jimmy Eat World. Their usage of keyboards and male/female harmonized vocals makes for a unique sound. Fans of Tigers Jaw especially need to hear this, as I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if The Anniversary were a huge influence on them. Their sophomore release, Your Majesty is also solid, as its a little more sonically varied and experimental, though Designing a Nervous Breakdown is definitely the crown jewel. It's packed with tight songs and their signature sound, and is definitely what I'd recommend starting with if you're new to this band. They put out a compilation in 2008 that contains most of their non-LP material, so that along with the two full-lengths are the essentials here. Enjoy.
1. The Anniversary - All Right For Now
2. Proudentall - Say Something
1. The Get Up Kids - Central Standard Time
2. The Anniversary - Vasil + Bluey
1. The Anniversary - To Never Die Young
2. Hot Rod Circuit - This One's For Randy
1. All Right For Now
2. Hold Me Tonight
3. Low Tide And Hospital Bed
1. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
2. All Things Ordinary
3. Perfectly
4. The D in Detroit
5. Emma Discovery
6. Shu Shubat
7. Till We Earned A Holiday
8. Without Panasos
9. Hart Crane
10. Outro In No Minor
1. The Anniversary - O' Lady Butterfly
2. The Anniversary - Anais
3. The Anniversary - Up In The Sky
4. Superdrag - Take Your Spectre Away
5. Superdrag - I Guess It's American
6. Superdrag - The Emotional Kind
1. What's My Name? My Name Is... What!? What!?
2. Tu-Whit To-Whoo
1. Sweet Marie
2. Crooked Crown
3. Peace, Pain & Regret
4. Husam Husam
5. The Siren Sings
6. Never Die Young
7. Tu-Whitt Tu-Whoo
8. The Ghost Of The River
9. Devil On My Side
10. The Death Of The King
11. Follow The Sun
Disc 1
1. Fletcher Durbin
2. Alright For Now
3. Alone In Debtford
4. Those Eyes
5. Hold Me Tonight
6. Lowtide And Hospital Bed
7. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
8. I Haven't Slept
9. Diamonds And Daisies
10. Kids In Carolina
11. 100 Ships
12. Till We Earned A Holiday
Disc 2
1. Vasil & Bluey
2. To Never Die Young
3. That's My Name? My Name Is... What?! What?!
4. I Believe That The End Of The Reign Of Terror Is Soon Near
5. O' Lady Butterfly
6. Che
7. Ain't That Bad
8. Kali
9. I Know What's Best
10. Lover
11. Let It Slip
12. Lodi
13. Strings Back
14. High School Talent Show
Good Luck
1. How To Live Here
2. Pajammin'
3. Stars Were Exploding
4. Man On Fire
5. Hey Matt
6. Come Home
7. Public Radio
8. West Wind Ride
9. Same Stories
10. Sleep With No Bad Dreams
11. Stone Cathedral Hill
12. Bringing Them Back To Life
13. 1001 Open Hands
1. Novel Figure
2. Contact
3. Decider
4. When You Were Mine
1. All Good People
2. Our Mess, Our Mark
3. The Others
4. Novel Figure
5. Decider
6. A Song To Comfort The Sick
7. Contact
8. The Story, Rewritten
9. Impossible
10. It Gets Harder
11. Significant Day
1. Into The Void
2. Heed My Call
3. No T-Shirts
4. Hold On We're On The Way
5. Timelapse
6. Innumerable Sea
7. What Young Me Wanted
8. Pin Me Down
9. Bobbing / Idling
10. Make A Road
Saturday, 9 July 2022
Sincere Engineer
1. Corn Dog Sonnet No 7
2. Ceramic Tile
3. Overbite
4. Screw Up
5. Shattering
6. Here's Your Two Dollars
7. 1K Rats
8. Candle Wax
9. Let You Down
10. Keep You Company
11. Ghosts In The Graveyard
1. Trust Me
2. Tourniquet
3. Out Of Reach
4. Recluse In The Making
5. Hurricane Of Misery
6. Gone For So Long
7. Come Out For A Spell
8. Dry Socket
9. Coming In Last
10. Dragged Across The Finish Line
11. Bless My Psyche
1. Trust Me (Acoustic)
1. Library Of Broken Bindings
1. Bottle Lightning Twice
1. Anemia
2. California King
3. Old Coat Pocket
4. Landline
5. Fireplace
6. Code Orange
7. Inside My Head
8. Library Of Broken Bindings
9. Scratced
10. A Touch Of Hell
11. Cinderblocks
12. Blind Robin
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Senza
Senza are a three-piece hardcore/screamo band from Eugene, Oregon that began in 2014. Their debut album came out in 2019, though I admittedly slept on it until late last year, when I finally gave myself the chance to be blown away by it. Even A Worm Will Turn is a crushing listen from front to back, with a seamless flow from track to track. It pulls from a number of influences, with the spastic nature of screamo and heavy riffs of hardcore. Vocally, they're pretty reminiscent of Jeromes Dream circa Seeing Means More Than Safety. The rhythm section pummels through behind dark, angular guitars all with elements of black metal, courtesy of blast beats and string-shredding tremolo picking. It's a unique and impactful listen that conjures up feelings of unease and tension just to release them in cathartic explosions. I say it a lot and I'll say it again, I highly recommended giving this album a listen. Their previous material is also very solid, but the experience of their full-length in its entirety is definitely the highlight here. This is absolutely fantastic stuff, and I look work to whatever the band has coming next. Enjoy.
1. Kamchatka
2. That Belongs In A Museum
3. Mandatory Waiting Period
4. Empedocies... I Guess?
1. 3
13. How Staggering Is This Realization (Jeromes Dream cover)
Note: Full comp here
1. Senza - Dark Dive / Sentience
2. Senza - Garmonbozia
3. Akira - Evocation
4. Akira - Broken
5. Akira - Wet Dream Guillotine
6. Akira - Night Terrors
7. Akira - Another City On The Map
1. Senza - Provare
2. Senza - SHFFL // The Counterpick To Your Statement
3. Senza - Life After Debt
4. Antiphony - Entr'acte
5. Antiphony - Fletcher
6. Antiphony - Charmain
7. Antiphony - Walt
8. Antiphony - Jonathan
1. Misornithist
2. Tunnel Vision II
1. Tunnel Vision I
2. Born Of Dirt
3. Misornithist
4. Tunnel Vision II
5. Constant Air Of Casual Indifference
6. American Robin
7. Imposter
8. Sentience
9. Swarm
10. Inner Immolation
11. Even A Worm Will Turn
12. Echoes
1. Drain The Blood
2. Saved From His Grace
3. Cruel End Reflects Cruel Existence
4. Isolation
5. Scrap The Waste
Zochor
Zochor are a three-piece post-hardcore/emo band from Nottingham, UK that began in 2019. They share members with Algae Bloom, The Sylvia North Story, What Price, Wonderland?, and Plaids. Zochor play an impassioned brand of hardcore that takes influence from Revolution Summer-era emo, such as Embrace, Ignition and Soulside, with melodic bass lines, cutting guitar leads, and a cathartic, breaking vocal delivery. Enjoy.
1. Another Bedroom Intervention
2. Big Rob Returns
3. Big Pete Enters
4. Probably Don't, I Reckon?
1. Un Regard l'enfant-Jésus
2. I've Got No Right To Sing The Blues
3. Around The Dinner Table The Conversation Is Lively
4. The Christmas Lights Are Up (but no one's turned them on yet)
1. Overo - Another Year In Hell
2. Overo - A Hole In The Earth
3. Punch On! - Gore-tex Aorta
4. Punch On! - Rokycany
5. Punch On! - Defensive About Being On Fire
6. Zochor - Have You Considered Going There?
7. Zochor - Syncopation
8. Coma Regalia - Uncoming
9. Coma Regalia - In Sentiment Only
10. Coma Regalia - Further Into You
Kara's Walk Home
1. June
1. American Soccer
2. Escape From The City
3. Stars Kids Home
4. 4am again... that's fine
5. Weekend! Party With Your Friends!
6. Dry
7. I'll Give It My All... Tomorrow
8. Summertime! Fun With Friends!
9. bad feelings ;^(
1. Goodbye, to This, and That and My Baseball Glove
1. Highway
2. Impressionism
3. Do You See The Thread Of Light?
4. June 2
5. Reintroduction Letter
6. Goodbye, to This, and That and My Baseball Glove
7. Spring & Movies
8. Ông Nội
9. Gauge Means Nothing in the Car
10. Dragon Bone Smasher
Monday, 27 June 2022
American Beauty
1. Baseball Shame Cocaine
2. Breathing Patterns
1. Stage Fright
2. Thank God For Details
3. Dan, When Are You Coming Over To Shotgun More Beers Again?
4. Canadian Ugly
5. Trepanation
6. Fake Weddings
1. Carolina
2. Route 9
3. Soy Boy
4. "The Gang Gets Emo"
1. Innerlove. - Murder
2. Innerlove. - Walked On
3. American Beauty - Stage Fright
4. American Beauty - Dinner At Dorsia
Friday, 29 April 2022
Grade
Grade are a five-piece hardcore/emo band from Burlington, Ontario that began in 1994 and initially broke up in 2002, before reuniting for shows in 2006, and ha,ve been fully reformed since 2009, though less active than in their formative years. They technically began in 1992 under the name Incision, but after a few line-up changes they finalized as Grade in 1994, with their debut LP coming out a year later. After three more albums, other assorted releases, and some relentless touring, they disbanded in 2002. They reunited in 2009 to record new material, as well as sporadically tour and play shows.
Sonically, this band is often praised as being pioneers of the hardcore/emo blend that would become more widely popular in the 2000's. They developed a strong following, but never got any widespread recognition, thus why words like "underrated" and "influential" are often thrown their way. Rightly so, I might add. The band had the unique ability to blend metallic riffs of hardcore heavies like Chokehold with the more melodic, cathartic octave-chord crescendos of early emo bands like Evergreen or Sunny Day Real Estate. They were also one of the earliest bands to incorporate both screamed and cleanly sung vocals, a sound that again wouldn't become widespread until the next decade. If you're looking for a place to start with this band, Under The Radar is probably their most popular album, though I've always been partial to the rawer sound of And Such Is Progress. In regards to their discography, everything is below is near-complete, though there are a few minor things missing. Most notably some compilation tracks, as well as the early Afterthought single and Incision split, though all tracks from those two releases do appear elsewhere here. Enjoy!
1. Grade - Cripple
2. Grade - Choda
3. Grade - Impulse
4. Grade - Hairdie
5. Grade - Digga Digga Song
6. Grade - Classified
7. Grade - Melodic Song
8. Grade - Entangled
9. Believe - Pot O' Gold
10. Believe - Drowning
11. Believe - Last Chances
12. Believe - Second Coming
13. Believe - Joel's Song
14. Believe - Escape
15. Believe - Regret
1. Weave
2. Miracle Ear
3. CFNY
4. Bedhead
5. Tearjerk
6. Hive
7. Pocket Rocket
8. And Such Is Progress
1. Chancre
2. Not Heroic
3. Abandon The Need
1. Conceptualizing Theories In Motion
2. Symptoms Of Simplifying The Simplistic
3. The Adaption Of Means
4. Life Gets In The Way Of Living
5. To Illustrate And Design New Parameters
6. The Joy Of Stupidity
7. The Tie That Binds
1. The Inefficiency Of Emotion
2. For The Memory Of Love
3. Seamless
4. The Tension Between Stillness And Motion
5. Victims Of Mathematics
6. A Year In The Past, Forever In The Future
7. The Worst Lies Are Told In Silence
8. Second Chance At First Place
9. Stolen Bikes Ride Faster
10. When Something Goes To Your Head
11. Triumph and Tragedy
1. Cripple
2. Punk Rock Song
3. Impulse
4. Hairdie
5. Digga Digga Song
6. Classified
7. Instrumental Song
8. Entangled
9. Afterthought (Demo)
10. The Tension Between Stillness & Motion (Demo)
11. Triumph & Tragedy (Acoustic)
12. Stolen Bikes Ride Faster
13. Panama (Van Halen cover)
14. A Year In The Past (Radio Version)
15. Seamless (Acoustic Version)
1. Termites Hollow
2. Becoming Not Being
3. In The Wake Of Poseidon
4. Bleeding Warm & Newly Dead
5. Overthrowing Creation Itself
6. Little Satisfactions
7. Vertical Transmission
8. Will Bending
9. In Ashes We Lie
10. Sixth Chamber
11. The Empress
12. Twenty Moons
13. Winds Of Hell / The Glorious Dead
1. Bane - Non-Negotiable
2. Bane - Struck Down By Me
3. Grade - These Eyes Are On The Exit
4. Grade - Optical Portions
5. Unrestrained - Immaculate Deception
6. Unrestained - Anak Krakatau
7. Between Earth And Sky - Skin And Stone
8. Between Earth And Sky - Flow
1. Collapsed Lungs
2. Unstoppable Force vs. Immovable Object
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