If you ever are curious about midwestern emo and maybe you don't know anything, let this album be the one you hear. It pretty much sums up all the high points, and is my favourite. Jimmy Eat World's Clarity might be the other primary example of this sound, but this album's better. In terms of recommendations, there's probably a lot more and I'm sure you'll hear them from me. For now, grab a beer or put on some coffee and peep this one.
e: This music needs more talking about, so here we go. The case with a lot of music like this is either there's too much raw emotion going on and it just sounds amateurish, or the band has become scientifically exact at creating the one sound but the emotion is lost. This is a really happy medium, it sounds like pretty darn good songwriting for say, post rock, but the people making it are about to cry. They're playing really hard and it shows. The Appleseed Cast made some bad albums but then re-emerged as a pretty decent post rock band. They were able to channel their raw emotion into a more polished form, and as a good post rock album should their music now conjures moods and leaves more to the listener's imagination. So this sounds like punk-post rock. It's nothing like post-punk though I guess it literally is that.
LINK
No comments:
Post a Comment