![]() ![]() The Head and the Heart have done a great job on their fourth album, LIVING MIRAGE, at keeping the raw, vulnerable sound that they debuted with back in 2011 while also continuing to grow as a band, ebbing and flowing towards more pop music. įavorite Songs: “Brenda,” “People Need A Melody” ![]() Although a quick shoutout to melancholy closer “Your Ghost Is Gone,” whose instrumentation sounds like it was found on a Los Campesinos! cutting room floor. ![]() But I’ll always be an angsty teen at heart, and the two bursts of former bratty spit and wit, “Lou Barlow” and “Brakelines,” are where I’m the most at-attention, with earworm riffs, rough-and-tumble scrappiness, and just enough hooks to shout-along to. The most “emo” song on the album is actually the low-point, “Symphony of Silence” falling victim to regrettable lyricism (“ It’s just a symphony of silence / Medicated by science”… ick), and the album actually tends to be at its most approachable when the band hits a strange but not entirely uncomfortable pocket of electric-Jeff-Tweedy-meets-alt-rock-radio-meets-the-good-parts-of-Weezer (“The Problem Is Me”). That said, I’ve listened to the thing two-and-a-half times and I still couldn’t tell you a single definitive thing about at least eight of these tracks. As can be expected from a late-career pop-punk/emo act, “power pop” is the new name of the game, and there’s more than enough here to fluff out your summer playlists: crunchy riffs, palatable vocals, and just enough pep to keep a Sunday soiree going. But at the end of the day, PROBLEMS… is fine. ![]() As for the Get Up Kids, expectations were higher for their next album than they’ve been in two decades thanks to last year’s unsung, unassuming, and generally kickass KICKER EP. You can pull a Jimmy Eat World and pretty much become an indie band you can pull an American Football and continue to grow and take risks, whether they’re successful or not you can pull a Mineral, and somehow release some of the best songs of your career. We’re here to tell you what’s hot and what’s not on this week’s music roundupįavorite Tracks: “Lou Barlow,” “Brakelines”Īs we’ve apparently found ourselves in the time of an emo revival in the literal sense, where the seminal acts of the late ‘90s and early aughts are getting the band back together for various anniversary tours and the like, things typically go one of a few ways. ![]()
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