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

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