They're a local band in my area and I got to see them again this past Saturday, this album feels like a road trip as a young adult, figuring your life out with all its trials and tribulations! It's been one of my favorite albums since I saw them in a basement for the first time around two years ago!
Feb 5, 2025
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Discovered cos they're playing my college hometown theater in Mississippi, and I'm getting my Boomer parents tickets. So if you discover them by this rec and like them, they're already lame. Too late loser.
Jun 8, 2024
def a special case since this is the band I used to manage, but this album was part of a huge turning point in my life. the band is a few friends I went to college with and ended up moving in with my junior year. I knew them from their early days playing shows around NYC and slowly adding new songs to the set list, and by the time we lived together they had the whole album written. I was basically the Frankie Jonas to their Jonas Brothers until they decided they wanted to finally put their years of work out into the world and asked me to be their manager. working with them was my first experience in that kind of role and led to me pursuing it as a career, which I’m currently in grad school for.
genuinely love this album musically tho, it’s rough around the edges as it was produced before and during the pandemic and was a mishmash of studio recording and DIY stuff we threw together in our living room, but I think it adds to the charm. if you’re into indie rock with emo lyrics and noisy shoegazy type guitars def give it a listen. the songwriting is super personal to the vocalist and knowing her life outside of the album and what went into the songs makes it that much more meaningful.
every time I listen to this album it takes me back to having just graduated, not knowing what I was doing with my life, but knowing that I got so much fulfillment out of putting music into the world and unknowingly stumbling into figuring out what I did want to do with my life. wouldn’t be where I am now had I not been a part of making this album happen
Apr 11, 2024
this is the debut from canadian emo band Arms Length. an absolute modern masterpiece for emo music.
the lyrics on this thing are tortured, dealing with themes of memory, family, loss, and isolation. compositionally i love it. tasteful strings and twinkling riffs over heavy blasts of sound. and speaking of sound, it’s mixed and mastered beautifully. every listen gives me something new to chew on.
personally, this one also got me through the roughest period in my adult life. i heard them for the first time live when they were opening for heart attack man right before this album came out. i was absolutely floored by their performance. something about this band breathed life into me and god that’s what i love so much abt music :) my fave songs on it are formative age and everything as i knew it. tough love is a fuckin banger too
5d ago
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