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    Daily music recommendation #36

    Switching it up today. Instead of a singular recommendation, I wanted to showcase the global reach of emo music. I'm not nearly as familiar with non-American emo, so I could only give these examples. But all three of them are fire.
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    Leiah from Sweden are very heavily influenced by The Get Up Kids. They practically sound like the same band.

    Eleventwelfth is an Indonesian band that borrows from the twinkly guitar sounds of the revival, but with a lot less punk sensibility. Perfect for the more contemplative nights.

    Last, Japan's own Arigarnon Friends. I could go on and on about the influence of midwest emo and math rock on Japanese music.
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    You could be having a normal dinner with your uncles, and in between talks of the fine shyt they fumbled in highschool, they'd just randomly bring up Anastasia surviving execution and esoteric Hitlerism.
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    Daily music recommendation #35

    This is where the label "emo" reveals once again the nebulous nature of pop culture terms.

    By no means is Weezer an emo band. They're a lot of things for a lot of people. Virgin music, incelcore, geek rock, power pop, but not emo.

    Yet, their sophomore album Pinkerton is considered a significant and influential work in the 90s emo pantheon.
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    Also: Across The Sea is an anthem if you can get past the uncomfortably raw and honest lyrics. This is where you start seeing the signs of Rivers Cuomo's yellow fever.
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    It's like v-kei. The sounds start from power metal, progressive, then metalcore. We call it weebcore.

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    Sometimes you just gotta not think about genre labels too much :blob_hmm:
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    Daily music recommendation #34

    Onto emo's fourth wave (the revival). Emo was gaining prominence in the underground, thanks to the internet. Bands started reincorporating the clean, indie-flavored sounds of 90s midwest emo, mostly inspired by American Football. This led to many of these bands sounding derivative. A cliche arose that emo was now white boys whining over twinkly riffs.
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    This wasn't to say there wasn't experimentation though. The revival also saw genre-blending by bands such as Title Fight and Brave Little Abacus (more on them some other time). Another band of note at the time was The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, notable for their blend of familiar twinkly emo and swooning post-rock. And the band's name almost just put me over the character limit.
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    Heartbeat in the Brain is a standout track from an album full of fresh sounds for the scene. It wastes not even a second with building tension, opening with palm-muted guitars, building tension by adding individual sonic elements, until it bursts forth into whiny dual vocals that are unmistakably emo. From there, it quiets down to yet another post-rock lull, building tension from scrap once more for one final climax.
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    Daily music recommendation #33

    When you think of emo bands, what do you imagine? Young men in skinny jeans and wack hair? The genre may have this perception of being a boy's only club, but certain bands do buck that trend.

    Everyone Asked About You almost sound like a twee pop band with their naive boy-girl vocals, but that little bit of grit and rawness is unmistakably 90s emo.
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    Daily music recommendation #32

    Fuck it, it's emo week. I'll be posting the best of the various waves of emo to show the genre's range beyond 2000s Hot Topic music.
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    This one's by the legendary 90s Midwest outfit The Promise Ring. Vocalist Davey von Bohlen, formerly of the equally legendary Cap'n Jazz, cannot sing for shit. But what he can do is write repetitive yet catchy songs that perfectly capture suburban melancholy and ennui. This is for the people who peaked in highschool.

    The band would go on to influence later emo pop bands like Fall Out Boy and Dashboard Confessional.
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    I swear if I was a Make-A-Wish kid, I'd wish to eat so much Texas BBQ that it overrides whatever's already killing me and gives me a fatal heart attack instead.

    Fuck meeting LeBron James and Disneyland. This is what I want.
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    I realized that even if I just posted stupid bullshit 10 times every single day, it'd still take me over 3 years of straight coalposting to reach the current top of the forums.

    Wowzers :blob_shock:
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    Daily music recommendation #31

    My favorite Kessoku Band track. An absolute masterclass of math rock, courtesy of Nakajima Ikkyu of tricot. It features some of the best guitar work in the genre, including a killer verse riff. Mizuno Saku's vocals also capture the melancholic feel of the song perfectly (she's even better in the live version).
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    Has Persona 4 aged well at all? I've only touched the PS2 original 15 years ago, so I don't know what Golden's like.

    For some reason, 4 gives me the most nostalgia out of the modern Persona games, especially the soundtrack. Holy balls that soundtrack.

    Definitely willing to give it another spin once life starts making a bit more sense :blob_dizzy:
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