It was 2010. My friends and I used to swap USBs full of .mp3 files (usually ripped from CDs we had borrowed at the library) and we were all curating these bloated itunes libraries on our parents desktop computers.
I never listened to the radio so this album managed to pass me by. The first time I heard it, it was technically autumn but in every experiential sense it was winter and I was on the bus to school. I had time to listen to it twice. To this day, itβs one of my all time favourites and all my friends make fun of me for it. (I may be embarrassing but I commit 100%!)
I have lyrics from the last track tattooed on my arm bc I have been obsessed with MCR since I was 13ish. I will forever be grateful to have seen this album played in full last October at WWWY fest in Las Vegas. Genuinely a life changing moment for me!
That feeling from finishing a day in high school and being autumn but still not winter. Like Vampire Weekend's S/T, Interpol, Deerhunter, The strokes..... Truly remembering what being 16/17s was like.... prob gonna make a playlist
This was such a turning point in my music listening and was likely the CD that kicked off my emo phase ~2002. I vividly remember cranking my Discman up to 10 for the first time on the school bus to this.
