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Pretend Happy – ‘Mood Swings’ EP Review

15/05/2015 by Tom Roden

Emo’s festering remains, revived… sadly & badly. Sounds like: The ghost of Emo past Listen to: ‘Lucky’ The golden age of emo may have passed, but that doesn’t stop Pretend Happy from harnessing the sound on their recent ‘Mood Swings’ EP. Unfortunately, unlike artists spearheading a 80’s-electro revival, some genres are better left untouched. With emo being a genre that was media-dubbed in the first place, the alternative music scene has just moved on and left that period behind. So […]

Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Emo, Lucky, Mood Swings EP, Pretend Happy, Review

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Bohica – ‘Dry’ Review

07/08/2014 by Tom Roden

Cue the alarm bells. Bohica are a band that describe themselves as ’emo’. As we’ve said before, we’re immediately skeptical of bands that apply such a tag to themselves – not least because even superstars of the emo movement (ah, the good(?) old days of last decade where angst was in and rumours of wrist-slitting apocalypse worshippers were all the rage) didn’t brand themselves as such. And, as with Coasts, we sit here chomping down on our own feet as […]

Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Bohica, Coasts, Demo, Dry, Emo, Grunge, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Post-Punk, Shoegaze

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Coasts – ‘Oceans’ Review

31/05/2014 by Tom Roden

Nothing riles me up like reading a band describe themselves as ’emo’. For me, ’emo’ is a branding given by closeminded music critics in the mid-noughties to post-punk/softcore-hardcore bands that were slightly too punk to be pop-punk. So when I see a band describe themselves as ’emo’, I see red. I gave Coasts a chance in spite of this, with their track ‘Oceans’. And I was so pleasantly surprised that I became annoyed at myself for jumping to conclusions. ‘Oceans’ is […]

Categories: Review, Track Review, Video • Tags: Coasts, Emo, Indie, Indie-Rock, Oceans, Post-Punk, Twin Atlantic, You Me At Six, Youmeatsix

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