Stay Inside

Stay Inside are a four-piece post-hardcore band from Brooklyn, New York that began in 2016. After a few releases, they dropped their debut full-length earlier this year via No Sleep Records. Viewing is a heavy record, in terms of potent emotional weight. It's a record that exudes catharsis, with a natural and genuine delivery. Sonically, they can be loosely compared to bands such as Balance and Composure, Have Mercy, and Daisyhead. It keeps its sound fresh and varied, from the mewithoutYou-influenced opener "Revisionist" to the sombre exit music of "Leave". In between is a slew of dynamic shifts, from quiet arpeggios to screamo-ridden peaks (with "Veil" being a notable highlight). Outside of their LP, they've also released two fantastic splits with other great bands, Dad Thighs and Good Looking Friends, so be sure to check those out as well. Enjoy.

The Sea Engulfs Us And The Light Goes Out (2018)

1. Advice From A Caterpillar

2. Reconstruction

3. (fishtank)

4. Fever and Jealousy

5. Your Guardsmen Swarm Like Locusts

6. We Look On In Echoes

Balancing Acts (2018)

1. Good Looking Friends - The Rope

2. Good Looking Friends - Bodega Cat

3. Stay Inside - FOIA

4. Stay Inside/Good Looking Friends - Testimonial

5. Stay Inside - The Fall

Offseason (2019)

1. Offseason

The Final Girl (2019)

1. Dad Thighs - iwrotehaikusabouttheladsinyouryearbook

2. Great Weights - 490

3. Stay Inside - Puritans

Viewing (2020)

1. Revisionist

2. Void

3. Ivy

4. Monuments

5. Silt

6. Divide

7. Wake

8. Veil

9. Verdict

10. Leave

Blight (2022)

1. Eraser

2. Hollow

3. Fracture

4. Spore

5. Dissolve

Ferried Away (2024)

1. Bon Zs

2. Learn To Float

3. A Backyard

4. An Invitation

5. A Town To Give Up In

6. My Fault

7. When's The Last Time?

8. Sweet Stripe!

9. Steeplechase

Lunger (2025)

1. Counting Electric Sheep

2. Wish It Away

3. Super Sonic

4. Oh, Longshoreman

5. Monsieur Hawkweed

6. Old Faithful

7. Ain't That A Daisy

8. Morning Breath

9. See You Next Time, Wild Hogs

10. (spaghetti night)

11. Runnin'

12. My Dream Of Doing Nothing

13. Look! A Smoke Signal

14. A Road Is A Red River

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Record Setter

Record Setter are a four-piece screamo/emo band from Denton, Texas that began in 2011. After a few sporadic releases, they released I Owe You Nothing this month via Topshelf Records. This is an absolute statement of a record, with powerful performances and a literally seamless delivery. Each track flows effortlessly into the next, making for one unforgettable, singular experience. Sonically, I don't think I've ever heard a record that appeals to virtually every niche this blog thrives in.. It's even hard to nail down particular elements of this, as every turn is another resounding "fuck yes", with something fresh and unequivocally unique. Instead of just rambling here, I highly, highly suggest you check this out. Without a doubt this is one of the best records I've heard this year, and an absolute listen for anyone fans of anything screamo-adjacent. Enjoy.

Dim (2014)

1. Dim Lit Streets

2. Rentative

3. Two Transitions

4. Sleep

5. Oil and Water

6. Down To Earth

7. The Road

8. Wild Card

Purge (2017)

1. A Realization

2. Wishing Your Life Away

3. We Let Our Youth Fail Beautifully

4. Multiple Attempts At The Same Thing

5. Losing Hope

6. Talking To Yourself Shouldn't Be An Argument

7. Purge

8. If You've Ever Wondered

Sylvania Ave./Genius Christ/Record Setter (2019)

1. Sylvania Ave. - A Different Point Of View

2. Sylvania Ave. - When You Tried To

3. Genius Christ - Mind Sweeper

4. Genius Christ - Merchant of Doubt

5. Record Setter - Self Of Steam

6. Record Setter - Is This Existing

I Owe You Nothing (2020)

1. Someplace

2. Sometimes

3. Humus

4. Present Tense

5. A Portrayal

6. An Impression

7. An Explanation

8. Rigor Mortis

9. Reprise

10. Future Tense

11. Fail And Fall

dissection lesson (2022)

1. Home Is Where - names

2. Home Is Where - creationish (feat. Pierce Jordan)

3. Record Setter - a world without you

4. Record Setter - plain english

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Donor

Donor were a five-piece emo/indie/punk band from Orlando, Florida that began in 2013. They were a project created by members of Dikembe, You Blew It!, You'll Live, and Crucial Dudes, all fantastic bands in their own right. They came together for one four-track EP, which was released in 2013. They haven't shown any signs of activity since 2015, so it's safe to say this is the one and only we will get. It's a solid release, and sort of what you'd get when a midwest emo band kicks on the overdrive for a pop punk tinge. Enjoy.

Ache Through My Bones (2013)

1.Bitt Will Fit

2. Everything Feels Illegal

3. Katy Perry, Please

4. Pool Dad

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Enfold

Enfold were a five-piece hardcore/screamo band from Bielefeld, Germany that were around from 1995 to 2000 (approximately). Besides that, the only info I could find on them was that they shared a member with 125, Rue Montmartre. There's also a fantastic live set from them on YouTube from unARTigNYC if you're interested here. Sonically, they're comparable to bands such as Swing Kids and Angel Hair. Enjoy.

La Familia (1996)

1. Damnation...

2. Drown The Need

3. Sounds And Silence

4. Burst

...Routine (1997)

1. 20th

2. Damnation

3. Riots

4. Oak

5. Routine

Enfold/June's Tragic Drive (1998)

1. Enfold - Comfort

2. Enfold - Run Down

3. Enfold - On First Hand Down

4. June's Tragic Drive - Good-Bye January

5. June's Tragic Drive - Sunday Evening Thoughts

Linsay Killed Enfold - The First Is The First... The Second Is A Nobody (1999)

1. Enfold - Free For Fire

2. Enfold - Conscience

3. Enfold - Tradition

4. Linsay - Carousel

5. Linsay - Just For You

No Coming Home (2000)

1. Dante's Forgotten

2. Feuron

3. Temper

4. Interlude #1

5. Mimesis

6. Untitled Film Still

7. Interlude #2

8. Plastic Suit

9. Interlude #3

10. Quiet Life

11. No Coming Home

12. Permanent Landscape

13. Serious Place

14. Interlude #4

As The Sun Sets

As The Sun Sets were a four-piece grindcore/metalcore band from Providence, Rhode Island that began in 1998 and ended in 2002. Though they were only around a relatively short while, they did manage to put out two full-lengths, an EP, and a live EP. This band is of particular note because 3 of its members went on to form Daughters right after the dissolution of As The Sun Sets. The chaotic, noisy experimental approach to hardcore present in the first two Daughters' albums is definitely hinted at in ATSS later material. Having said that, they still have a more straight forward grind/metal approach in comparison to the off-the-wall nature of Canada Songs. They put a solid slew of material that's worth checking out, regardless of what its members went on to do after. Enjoy.

Each Individual Voice Is Dead In The Silence (1999)

1. Intro

2. Searching For A Reason To Carry On

3. From This Day Forward

4. Such Words Were Upon The Tongues of Demons

5. Unfulfilled Dreams Are A Burning Utopia

6. Carpathian

7. ...Shed For You and For Many

8. A Thousand Falling Skies

9. Everything

Limited Summer Demo (2001)

1. From This Day Forward

2. Feed The Scenesters To The Lions

3. Hay Is For Horses

4. Girls Don't Talk To Me

5. We Must (Deliberately) Bring Him Down From There

6. Untitled

7744 (2002)

1. Hay Is For Horses

2. I Saw The Saturday Night Sky Over 195 Explode

3. I've Run Over Black Cats That Were Luckier Than Me

4. Noise Track

5. While Others Attend Chatrooms With Erections

6. Feed The Scenesters To The Lions

7. Untitled One

8. Untitled Two

9. Sweet Merciful Crap

10. Borderline Sarcasm

11. 77

12. 44

8949 (2002)

1. Your Beauty Is A Car Wreck I Do Concur

2. If I've Said It Once I've Said It A Thousand Times, Pyrotechnics, Pyrotechnics, Pyrotechnics

3. Remember When I Didn't Say What I Wanted To Say

4. Untitled 3

5. Black On Black And So Much Class

Fluoride

 Fluoride are a three-piece grindcore/emoviolence band from New Brunswick, New Jersey (now seemingly split between NYC and Philadelphia) that began in 2016. They scratch the itch of many fans along the extreme music spectrum, including grindcore, powerviolence, and screamo, all while still chipping away at other sounds just semi-related to them. Basically, what I'm getting at is this is a band not easily tied down by blanket genre statements, but a band with a strong statement nonetheless. Absolutely recommended to check out if you're a fan of seeing the extent an amplifier can be stressed to. Enjoy.

fluoride (2017)

1. retributivism

2. cool guy backed hard

3. due process

4. tunnel vision

5. restraint

6. offset

7. bloodroot

8. death sentence

disentanglement (2019)

1. degrade

2. alienate

3. suffocate

4. chipped away

5. still time

6. regenerate

7. neglect

8. thought reform

9. black ash

10. unconditional

11. hoax

12. deterioration

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niiice.

niiice. are a four-piece indie/emo/punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota that have been around since at least 2016. They are undoubtedly one of the biggest names in "emo" as it stands. Not sure how to frame or discuss this band, other than their songs do kick ass. Fans of the recent pop punk leaning emo will absolutely dig this, though they most likely have already heard this. That's not a complaint, I'm just behind the curve in getting in on this. As I said in a recent previous post, there is so much incredible material being put out right now, it's just hard to keep up like I used to, but still want to share what names are going to be major in years to come, and niiice. are without a doubt one of them. Self-deprecation has never sounded this fun. Enjoy.

Try To Stay Positive (2018)

1. RVR WTR

2. Star Wars

3. Ef U, Pay Me

4. Home Alone 2

5. Nervous

6. Scared of the Dark

7. Maria

8. Polaroid

9. My Floor

10. IDNU

$20 Mints (2018)

1. $20 Mints

Brace Cove Presents (Vol. 1) (2018)

1. niiice. - Sweaty Hands

2. Pretty Still - Not For You

3. Marmalade - Gross

4. Granddad - Do You Still Think About Me?

Never Better (2019)

1. Snowbored

2. Love Handlez

3. Blunt Force Marijuana

4. Haterade

5. Minneapolis vs. St Paul: This Time It's Personal

niiice./Gully Boys (2019)

1. niiice. - Caffeine

2. Gully Boys - Little Brother

Sweaty Hamm's (2020)

1. Sweaty Hamm's

internet friends (2020)

1. intro

2. trademarked

3. shlonkey kong

4. interlude

5. ruff n tuff

6. the lituation

7. sugar smacks

8. coachella

9. free earl

10. 2 hi

11. FRESCO MODE

12. lockjaw

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To Be Gentle

To Be Gentle are a four-piece screamo/post-hardcore band from Eugene, Oregon that began in 2017. In their few years now, they've managed to encapsulate and evolve a sound that's both distinctly their own while paying homage to bands that came before them. Their "earlier" material will definitely bring bands such as The Saddest Landscape, Suis La Lune, and Daïtro to mind, for their melodic and passionately emotive take on the genre. Their most recent material takes a darker turn, with the post-rock leaning Funeral Diner, City Of Caterpillar, and ...Who Calls So Loud joining the mix, with a nod to blackened hardcore/screamo. For such a new band, it's crazy to hear the clear progression in their sound and tightness as a unit.

To Be Gentle are undoubtedly one of the forerunners in the genre now, thus why it felt imperative to at least give them a nod in the ashes of this dying blog. The track "The Thought Of Losing You Terrifies Me" is what first floored me about this band, so if you're looking for one sample of this band, I recommend that. Enjoy.

I Love You (2018)

1. That Which Is Safe

2. Tender Green

To Be Gentle (2019)

1. Understanding Healing

2. All The Things I Was Too Scared To Say

3. We Build Our Castles In The Air

4. Du Sang

5. Road To Himeji

6. But A Sound

7. Tender Green

8. An Amputation

9. That Which Is Safe

10. The Hand That Rests On My Shoulder

11. One Day We Will No Longer Hurt

12. To Be Gentle

Live at Gamut (2019)

1. Live at Gamut

L'autre Côté de la Peur (2019)

1. Flesh and Blood, Bone And Dream

2. If You Are Reading This

3. Insurmountable

4. 7/14/19

5. The Thought Of Losing You Terrifies Me

I Love You And I Am Sorry (2020)

1. I Love You And I Am Sorry

septemberthirteenthtwentytwenty (2020)

1. To Be Gentle - Every Day

2. To Be Gentle - An Ardent Light

3. sowithout. - tinyhands2therescue

4. sowithout. - synonymsforsad

Letters To (2020)

1. Indisposed - Antiquate The Argument

2. Indisposed - Indisposed

3. To Be Gentle - Ephemeral And Endless

4. To Be Gentle - Aftermath

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Exhalants

Exhalants are a three-piece post-hardcore/noise rock band from Austin, Texas that have been around since 2017. Despite my infrequent post schedule these days, I wanted to quickly throw out a recommendation for one of the best albums I've heard in the past few months, which is none other than Atonement. This band embodies the space left by bands like Unwound and Drive Like Jehu, while continuing the lineage of Big Black to Whores. Toss in elements of Hoover, Slint and Unsane to round off the namedropping. I can't recommend this enough, as Atonement is an album that absolutely belongs to the year 2020, for better or worse.

Democore (2017)

1. Unshut

2. Cauterize

3. If Only

4. Ballot Regression

5. Red River Shoot Up

Exhalants (2018)

1. Latex

2. Cauterize

3. Ego Death

4. Public Display of Failure

5. False (St)art

6. If Only

7. Bow Yr Head

8. Unshut

9. Punishers

10. And I'll Take You To A Quiet Place

Pinko/Exhalants (2018)

1. Pinko - Hex The Body

2. Pinko - Roseom Rauderdam

3. Exhalants - Cowards

4. Exhalants - ADMF

Atonement (2020)

1. The Thorn You Carry In Yr Side

2. Bang

3. Passing Perceptions

4. Definitions

5. End Scenes

6. Richard

7. Crucifix

8. Blackened

9. Lake Song

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Jenny Piccolo

 Jenny Piccolo were a three-piece powerviolence band from Santa Cruz, California that were around from approximately 1996 to 2001 (though I could be wrong on that). They were formed by former members of Mohinder, and played an intense style of emoviolence that the California scene defined in the mid-90s. They were almost exclusively a Three-One-G band, even releasing a split with label staples The Locust. Their sole LP, Information Battle To Denounce The Genocide was released in 1996. That album, along with all other recorded material was compiled on a discography release in 2006. This contains all 52 songs by the band, with a run-time that extends just past the half-hour mark. Enjoy.

Discography (2006)

1. Joined At The Brain

2. Six

3. Wood Breaking Manifesto

4. One Wat

5. Punky Brewster

6. Product Of Power

7. Purity Control

8. Suicide Cliche

9. Jade

10. Traction Reaction

11. Hand That Feeds

12. East Reed

13. Dim Bulb

14. Heavy Metal Weekend

15. Bipolar on Lithium

16. Severe Battery

17. Bore Dome

18. Tank OM Jag Vore en Dods Maskin, Bara Ga Omkring och Slosa Liv (A.K.A.: Have You Seen My Tanks?)

19. Total Alienation

20. Blunt Still Burns

21. Amber Gambler

22. Red Dead

23. Purity Control

24. High School Handgun Fever

25. Cyanide Inhaler

26. True 'til Death

27. Left Behind

28. Bearing Holes

29. State Legal Lynching

30. God's Gym

31. We Are All Illegal

32. Donation To The Deaf

33. Patented Genes

34. Preschool

35. El Salvador's Radio Problems

36. I AM

37. Remembrance

38. Shutdown

39. Freshly Grown Warheads

40. Liberty Machines

41. Followhead

42. Pure

43. Face Extinction

44. Acceptance of Meanings

45. Pain Culture

46. Sink or Swim

47. Forgotten

48. Labor Day

49. Six

50. Hand That Feeds

51. One Year

52. __!

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