Prior
to downloading this demo, all I knew about this band was that they came up
under a tag I clicked on through Band Camp (I don’t remember which one, I click
so many) and the cover art has a cassette on it. I was curious to see if this would be
available on cassette as well, but it only appears to be a download. Still, it’s a Name Your Price Download, so I
decided to check it out because they did pull an Alk3 and use a picture of a
cassette for their album cover. (Any
friend of tapes is a friend of mine)
The
music here is a grittier pop punk that makes me want to bop my head. It’s a lighter version of Local H, the
earliest of Saves the Day or something like The Beautiful Mistake or
Bayside. Realistically, this is the
type of sound that I generally tend to scoff at and say sounded better in the
early ‘00’s but has no real place in music anymore—at least not for me.
Yet,
somehow I like this. I sincerely
do. It doesn’t make me long for the days
of Taking Back Sunday’s first album so much as it just makes me happy listening
to it now, in this moment.
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