rolling emo/pop-punk/the fireworks album is never coming out thread of 2021

🎵🎵have some nice news to share with you tomorrow 🎵 🎵

— David Mackinder (@davepest) February 4, 2021

https://closernyc.bandcamp.com/album/within-one-stem

this new closer album was one of the suggestions in the previous thread; the preview track is one of the best post-hardcore (read: pretty guitar melodies but with only shouting/screaming over it) things i've heard in some time

aaaaaaahhhhhh fireworks!!!!!!!!!

i should also rep for this maxshh album despite hating the band name a lot https://maxshh.bandcamp.com/album/feedback-pb

if you persevere beyond the first track you'll understand why

(thanks for the rec alpine static)

kitchen sink emo a la glass beach though also different from that

i almost wrote in the other thread "i didn't really 'get' glass beach, and this is kinda what i wished it sounded like"

hell yeah thanks for posting that closer link Brad.

closer and The Armed are easily my most anticipated albums coming in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbo21aWFbhQ

thanks for making a 2021 version of this thread too. sorry for re-posting that above video in 3 different places, just want to keep this one current as 2020 emo fades away

so stoked for this Armed album

noticed some writers at some of the bigger websites taking note, too. they're gonna get a lot of love around release date.

about time. I know I vouched for the live show hard in here and some people were disappointed when they went but I still stand by it as one of the best live experiences I've had. part oddball performance art and part hardcore show.

re david mackinder:

https://davemackinder.bandcamp.com/

lol yeah i was gonna update that his announcement had nothing to do with fireworks, as expected

fireworks and the wrens in a tortoise vs dying tortoise race for my heart and deluxe pre-order money

lmao yeah i am preordering the wrens album on sight when it comes out in 2025

(j/k i'm actually getting my hopes up it'll come out this year :(((( )

why are we like this lol

one of my favorite emo-adjacent releases of the last few years finally getting a physical release

https://dazeyandthescouts.bandcamp.com/album/maggot

any heavy hitters we can reasonably actually expect new stuff from this year? only Foxing and Joyce Manor that I know of but there must be others

also that mackinder ep is fucking great despite not being the new Fireworks album, man that fella is a helluva songwriter

btw eva from rolo tomassi reportedly has a guest spot on the armed record

God i can't even imagine where rolo tomassi could go after that last album

ok not a 2021 album, but I'm mad that girl friday put out a full length last August and I was not directly notified. it fucking rules

https://girlfridayband.bandcamp.com/album/androgynous-mary

they're so good

they opened for The Beths the first time i saw them and were terrific

back when there were shows

yeah I saw that tour too! god I miss shows :(

more armed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1TvrYAwrBY

aoty incoming

if you like the artier end of emo/jazz-rock/math-rock (a la Young Jesus) then the new Really From album is for you

new harmony woods album (prod. bartees strange) is big and bold

https://harmonywoods.bandcamp.com/album/graceful-rage

spent sometime with the closer album this weekend. I like it, good continuation of what they were doing on the debut.

y'all y'all y'all y'all

new fiddlehead album this year

and the new song ROCKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDtNacjggE

the core, the heart music

out may 21: https://fiddleheadma.bandcamp.com/album/between-the-richness

oh hell yeah

i got the promo this morning and can't imagine there'll be much competition with it for emo album of the year

famous last words i know

"eternal you" is totally atdi/trail of dead-brand emo and the rest of the songs are total anthems. "down university" HAS to be the next single

more rolling punk/hardcore 2021 than emo pop punk but into this a bunch

https://thirdface.bandcamp.com/album/do-it-with-a-smile-2

funny I heard "mistakes and regrets" the other day and realized that while not really an emo band ToD did write 4 or 5 perfect emo songs xp

digging the gruff vocal style on this:
https://dirtcultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/needles-pins

yo ... that ^ is great! nice mix of rough/ragged and pretty/poppy. thanks for sharing...

new Yr Poetry, which if you ever wondered what Johnny Foreigner people were up to these days: still being awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojen83QBUE8

https://parannoul.bandcamp.com/album/to-see-the-next-part-of-the-dream

feel like there's enough emo in the dna of this for this thread

south korean lo-fi shoegaze/emo, reminds me of diary and inlet among many other things

a similar sense of ambition facing off against lo-fi recording limitations to deathconsciousness except the drums don't sound like total shit

origami angel are putting out a double album on april 30 called gami gang

oh shiiit!

new songs sound great

oh yeah they're amazing

hoping for a double nickels length tracklist

it’s 20 songs i think

aren't we getting a new joyce manor this year as well? our cup overfloweth

the aforementioned length of the origami angel record is hearsay btw, i don't actually know

yeah I'm assuming it will be the length of 2 origami angel records. very stoked

i got the promo this morning and can't imagine there'll be much competition with it for emo album of the year

famous last words i know

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:58 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok, might as well reveal that i now have the origami angel promo, am halfway through it, and the bar has been cleared

i'm AWARE of how this SOUNDS but it's the best record i've ever heard

an upgrade in ambition and instrumentation on the level of johnny foreigner vs. everything

oh my god

impressed with this one-track (29 minute) lefty screamo album

https://tenuepunx.bandcamp.com/album/territorios

unsure if this is the right thread for such a thing but pretty much all of videos this article lists are great, imo, and a real timewarp mindfuck back to my srs punk/emo/hxc days

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-unearthed-footage-of-90s-punkemo-chicago-shows-braid-alkaline-trio-unwound-mineral-more/

the really from album is so much more my speed than the young jesus, though i get the comparison

(young jesus was the album last year i felt myself forcing myself to like... maybe their next album will hit me, but the vocals ultimately ended up grating)

I get that!

the opening run of tracks on the Really From album is really striking

this is the record they made in a laboratory just for me

i ended up buying their previous record verse and it’s also fantastic

I'm sorry this is not 2021 music but I just discovered this record and feel compelled to share, this is taking early back sunday as hell with better guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRj02rMdTAc

incredible

https://streamable.com/qzz0e6

taking early back sunday as hell

lol early taking back sunday that is

brad should listen to this record

who is gonna start a thread for The Armed

it needs to happen soon, but i am very lazy

it should definitely happen

i am once again excited for the upcoming album by the maine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQ4R827lVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri5yomoFTao

Brad's enthusiasm led me to check out Really From, which I should really love from the description, but I feel like it leans a little too far towards the jazz side of their sound than I'd prefer. It's not bad or anything, just doesn't strike the balance I'd prefer.

uh you may like their previous album, verse

I'll check that one out next! Not disparaging it at all, just wasn't the proportions I was expecting I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZebfDTMNSz8

citizen's life in your glass world is sounding really really good to me today - the experimentation (aka "drum machines and vocal distortion some of the time") suits them and a few of the songs are seriously earwormy

"blue sunday" has a very pleasing chord progression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VJxMATr9rU

catching up on listening to links posted itt, that Closer band sounded really good, and I was sitting around trying to figure out who they reminded me of: Submission Hold (kinda)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL2-GG8N-js

(thx btw for all the links everyone)

need to hear that citizen record

as well as the record k3v recommended upthread

listened to the citizen a couple more times, I think what they're up to here is basically 75% ersatz revival of mid-aughts alt radio stuff(eg bloc party, franz, and especially early killers) with 25% modern emo signifiers - vocals sound quite a bit like manchester orchestra, occasional screaming, downcast lyrics. etc. what sets the best songs apart is the sheer shamelessness - "death dance approximately" in particular is so aggressively hooky that I sort of found it repellent at first!

speaking of shameless "show me something that you like and I'll write you something better" is a pretty good fake pete wentz like

*line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZm8CWPMaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_Nh2EUzXM

new origami angel songs :D

lol forgot how brilliant "footloose cannonball brothers" is

i know i compared the album to johnny foreigner vs. everything upthread but it is also extremely is a real boy

very nice

I keep seeing the term "fifth wave emo", does it actually mean anything other than "new emo"

no

i haven't seen any evidence that suggests we've moved on from the "fourth wave" whatever that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRL3u-LDQy8

never heard of palette knife before but this song sounds good

I like their album title

manchester orchestra, origami angel and dawn richard all dropping on 04/30, incredible

I personally have no ska nostalgia so I have no use for this (clever as the new arrangements are) but some of you might!

https://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/album/ska-dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clF3e1m80U

this band doesn't really fit this thread but i'm hard pressed to think of a better one, plus everyone here should be into it. whole album is very good. riyl: charly bliss, specific members of boygenius... idk, it's occurring in that spot. full disclosure i'm dating the person who signed this band lol

so that's why you hardly post lmao

The Alternative posted this with a RIYL of Oso Oso, Fountains of Wayne and Macseal ... i punched a hole in my mouse clicking on it:

https://snowellet.bandcamp.com/album/suburban-indie-rock-star

It's not the best thing you'll hear today but it's pretty snappy indie-pop-rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANed-xdViC8

new pronoun

Good track. So can somebody trace the growth of vocal processing in emo/pop-punk/etc? Feels like it's become more and more prominent, not just Autotune but feeding vocals through all kinds of effects. I don't mind it, I think it can be used well, I'm just unclear on when it really permeated these genres.

Like I love the way Fritz uses vocal fx on this track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbHbyJV59BY

gami gang...... the emo gods have truly blessed us this year

for!!!! real!!!!!

it seems unfair that there's already a band called tiny moving parts because that's the perfect description of their sound

the samples are a riot

gami gang assemble

here’s where the fun begins

first time listening to gami gang the whole way through since i got the promo... a true 2021 scene classic

it's so exhausting but in mostly a good way

album cured my adhd

we need way more goofy bands

Gami Gang album is great
but wtf is up w/ that cover

fuckin gami gang

i LIKE THAT
you’re COOL AS SHIT
everybody else is fuckin LUDICROUS

yeah ... this album is just awesome. those dudes are clearly just exploding with ideas, pretty much all of them good.

I'm not sure it's actually better than Somewhere City which makes sense since apparently a bunch of this material predates it? but it clearly rules

easily better imo tho both great records

i too am surprised that i find the double album more consistent but every song is a hook factory

the more juvenile lyrics keep me at arm's length but I recognize this is a Me Problem

I'm real finicky about lyrics lately for some reason

the juvenile lyrics are a pro for me because i am a grown-up child having a midlife crisis. every time that Taco Bell song comes i close my eyes and am back in my '91 Ford Taurus with my buddies after playing basketball all night.

maybe I'd feel differently if I ever had a pokemon phase

ok gami gang is really fun, wildly overflowing with hooks & ideas

no denying they are overflowing with ideas and ambition but I just have not been able to get into this yet. I liked the last one too but I think these lyrics are preventing me from really clicking with it. Going to keep trying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6NcZq0mq0

maura put me onto this band. deftones-y space rock. they don't strictly belong in this thread but there's def emo in there. *simon h. siren*

ooooh

New Iron Chic track released on Bandcamp yesterday, it's v good in classic style

MOTHERFUCKIN' GAMI GANG

rt

Brad I’m 32 is now a good time to get over myself and get real into emo

it's never too late

i'll be 45 next month :(

Hеy, man
You tried your best today
And it wasn't all that great
But who really cares
No one
The answer is no one does
Nobody gives a fuck
It's sad but it's true

more screamo than anything but should work for this thread I think. from what i understand this will be their final release and is a re-working of past material but I really like this short and sweet energy bomb of an album
https://youthnovel.bandcamp.com/album/youth-novel

Guitarist Maya Chun is great as always. Apparently was involved in Serpent Column too which I love.

I love that Youth Novel album

new fiddlehead streaming here ahead of release https://www.thefader.com/2021/05/19/fiddlehead-between-the-richness-album-stream

and now it's officially out

always get surprised by how much "eternal you" sounds like sparta and tod spliced, texas emo forever

‘gospel.’ by @WeAreFireworks is TEN YEARS OLD TODAY. Anyone have a favorite track? pic.twitter.com/kQf9EuluwK

— Triple Crown Records (@3crown) May 24, 2021

no

no it can't be

I was sure we had a dedicated Laura Stevenson thread....anyway this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDpP8emwBc

yes!! i nearly posted it here myself

also the new pom pom squad, who still don't belong here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-O-z4wpVI

the new pronoun EP is so so so so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yGlK8cZek

new quicksand!!!!

am I wrong or is that unexpected?

they put out a good record a couple of years ago but a new quicksand album is always a pleasant surprise yeah

Johnny Foreigner are teasing lil snippets on their socials and I'm already inordinately excited.

Also the Arm's Length record is wall-to-wall bangers and will probably be my favourite of the year: https://armslengthontario.bandcamp.com/album/everything-nice

The two singles below but actually "Eve (Household Name)" is the standout imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65v1zYq0Rw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv6Wm1wDP74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_fl9IhbZU

the new maine album is very very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6dHBYMkkfA

i ended up not liking the last thrice record at all, but this single is super encouraging

love the Laura Stevenson album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn3OY1ytYEA

ok new thrice record is going to be very very very good

this is great. I've somehow missed both reunion albums, maybe I should check them out.

the second one, palms, is my least favorite thrice album (after their earliest material). to be everywhere is to be nowhere is really solid tho

palms may seem more transitional in retrospect once this new record is out

generally felt like it was on its way to somewhere it never arrived at

i really should add "post-hardcore" to these thread titles so i can feel free to talk about how good the new etid song is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1O1CuUuRWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ff767zoGBo

planet shit

thrice album is their best in a very long while, splits the difference between their exploratory radioheadish side and what i'm gonna characterize as their house style of "sludge emo" without spilling over into butt rock (both of the albums before this are guilty)

the new underoath song is way too good to keep in just their thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZIbH4TBxLk

No talk/love for the new TWIABP record, Illusory Walls, released yesterday? Figured it was perfect for this thread.

I am really enjoying its ambition, scope and almost, at times, progressive metal edge, but I can see it alienating their more traditional or emo-revival fans. Also not sure if those aforementioned qualities will hold up well upon repeated listens, but for now it is probably my fave AOTY.

I think it's amazing and surely Bradnelsoncore

they finally did it

i mean i liked harmlessness a lot but this is easily the best shit they've ever done

love the amount of atdi i hear in it

and "queen sophie for president" is objectively what i want all emo lead singles to sound like

NEVER GET BETTER AND NEVER DO ANYTHING

under any other circumstances some of these lyrics would jettison me right out of an album but they're really earning it musically

i've taken the temperature of emo after hearing this record and it's alive baby!!!!!

oh my god

TICKETS ON SALE NOW !!!!!!!

night 1 (rozwell kid, macseal, walter, nervous dater): https://t.co/0pCUOFnqBC

night 2 (hotelier, oso, gami, etc): https://t.co/xIjVQRVD6r pic.twitter.com/ceQdWmmnd2

— Counter Intuitive (@CIRecs) October 20, 2021

this might be my five favorite "emo thread" bands in one place over two nights (Hotelier, RK, Macseal, Oso, OA)

ETID album is so fucking SICK my god

also circa survive put out a new EP! real shift in their sound, totally gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7JuEI_rno

Thank you all who recommended OMG I Made It by Pronoun here and on the 1975 thread - awesome EP, need to check out her other stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyThIDuV4Ac

over the weekend I started reading the Dan Ozzi book about selling out. I just finished the ATDI chapter and thought it was good. same with the Blink chapter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9tz6ygawX0

this might be too metalcore for this thread, but I'm absolutely loving the new Dying Wish album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rzlbq4B0Ow