Interesting emo/screamo music
 

I'm looking for some interesting emo/screamo music.

I love bands like Rites of Spring and Moss Icon, but that's not really what I'm after (although some Moss Icon songs are what I'm looking for, especially Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly).

I'm certainly not looking for bands where every song is extremely similar (ie - Orchid, Ampere, etc)

Here's a list of the kind of the kind of bands I'm looking for:

City of Caterpillar
A Day in Black & White
Maximillian Colby
Indian Summer
Gospel
CTTS
early Unwound
Drive Like Jehu
some Hoover

in other words, bands that have interesting song structure, interesting instrumentation, some build-ups (catharsis!), some quiet/loud Slint-y post-rock type moments, morphing time signatures and crazy drumming. Any variant of all those, or anything similar to the bands I mentioned. You get the picture?

Do you want the obvious ones like 1905 or the lesser known like kakistocracy?

if you are into drive like Jehu, you would probably love the Refused album - the shape of punk to come.

and if your into max colby, go get sleepytime trio.

Envy, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, Mass Movement of the Moth, Aghast, Angel Hair, Daitro

Architects are kinda like Caterpillar if I remember correctly.

1905, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, A Petal Fallen, D'Amore, Devar-toi, Dispensing Of False Halos, Encyclopedia Of American Traitors, The Fall Of Boss Koala, Funeral Diner, Heaven In Her Arms, Her Breath On Glass, Hose.Got.Cable., I Spoke, Nitro Mega Prayer, Owltian Mia, Phasma Phasmatis, Sinaloa, She Spits Macabre, To Dream Of Autumn, Union Young America.

Go for it.

thanks y'all

well I've not heard 1905 yet, so both are good I guess

I've heard The Refused. I like them, but it's not exactly what I'm after. I'll check out Sleepytime Trio.

I haven't heard any of the bands in the last 3 posts except Envy, so I'll have fun going through those. Cheers again.

September, Cedar of Lebanon, Cyan, Elements of Need, Don Martin 3...
And I second that Union Young America rec.
And I don't know why everyone is so in love with 1905?

i always laugh every time i listen to 1905

...why?

Fo' realz, why? 1905 is the bee's knees.

check out Song of Zarathustra. They don't seem to get any love on this board and they're really amazing.

^Agreed.

Refused*

Try Nation of Ulysses.

whatever.

Good recommendation though, but Nation of Ulysses are already one of my favourite bands. I'm going to start downloading all the bands mentioned in this thread today.

The chick screamer/yeller in 1905 makes it kind of hard for me to take too seriously sometimes.

Really? I don't know, its weird. I kinda felt like that in the beginning, but I take it almost the opposite now.

wtf? i can't take the male singer seriously. and i think Quote is the only listenable song on Voice.

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Go and For Sale are my favourites.

I thought the track from their split with Amanda Woodward was pretty good. But I just can't get into Voice. There were parts I think I liked but that's about it. I played it maybe twice. Now it's just laying around somewhere. Literally collecting dust, unless it's under something.

Aotea (certainly interesting, screamo with a casio and trumpet)

The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg (extremely underrated and probs exactly what you're after).

Kids With Guns For Hands (theyre just really really good)

quoted for truth

Why all the hate for 1905? I love them. I love all the vocals, whether they be male/female, sung/screamed.

Here's a comprehensive breakdown of 1905's vox (like you care):

female singing>male screaming>male singing>female screaming>any other vocals in any other music ever

Ok, the last part was a bit of an exageration.

And I find Mass Movement of the Moth to be interesting. They work some really cool parts into their songs, but other parts just sound like your typical screamo. Overall a good band.

1905 isn't a horrible band, they just don't push any boundaries and the lyrics are a bit cheesy.

Quote is the only 1905 song i find listenable, really. O_O

MMOTM is great

also check out:

party of helicopters
harriet the spy
serotonin
ladderback
"new" terror class
sweetheart
thumbnail
1994
outclassed
a voice like rhetoric
antioch arrow
swing kids
we versus the shark
cinemechanica
so many dynamos
oh, empire
tabula rasa
faraquet!
geography
sadaharu
clikitat ikatowi
the al hal shedad
ballast and anchor
so many dynamos

nice first post, I've only heard the bold bands and I like them all. Especially Swing Kids and The Hal Al Shedad. Actually, The Hal Al Shedad is pretty much exactly what I have in mind, they're an excellent band. Textures of Tomorrow is all kinds of brilliance.

I've downloaded albums by 1905, Sleepytime Trio and I Would Set Myself On Fire For You so far. I'll try them all soon. 1905 seem to be an opinion divider, so that'll be interesting.

The first band Sound Devastation mentioned, I'm gonna make sure I get something by them ASAP too. Sounds cool.

did i mention, Zegota...get some of that stuff...there is so much good music in this place, just browse around.

Aussitot Mort

The Blood Brothers aren't screamo, but they're experimental post-hardcore with lots of screamed vocals. Very interesting stuff.

1905 is an awesome band, they collaborate great dueling screams into well-played instrumentals.
They also delve into acoustic in some songs, and their drummer is on fire half the time.
Their lyrics are not cheesy, they address issues present in reality that members of the band want to tackle; which, in my opinion, is better than stereotypical metaphors abundant in half the songs of most screamo bands.
Lastly, if you're going to call them out as being a bad band, don't do so by saying "they just don't push any boundaries"; more than two-thirds of screamo bands don't do anything but listen to music of a band who came two or three years before them and copy it note for note.

@chickendude: Doesn't push boundaries my ass. How many other bands sound like them?

Having dual vocals and acoustic songs (From Autumn to Ashes had acoustic songs) is far from "pushing the boundaries". They sing about war and ignorance/blind acceptance, which are things that are important to them and nice issues to try to tackle, but bands like Portraits of Past and Union Young America sang about them over a decade before and said it much better. And then bands like Don Martin 3 told stories that are absolutely beautiful. 1905 really just can't compare lyrically. They aren't saying anything new and aren't doing anything new with their music. I appreciate the things that they stand for, I just am not going to fall in love with them when they aren't that original and so many bands of the late 80s/early 90s were far more successful in translating their political beliefs into songs.

And I don't listen to most "screamo" bands. I say the same things about them. I find pretty much any band post2k (there are exceptions) trendy and also unoriginal. 1905 is not a "screamo" band, anyway.

Matchbook Romance has similar song structures (sing/scream/sing/scream). The Assistant has those acoustic songs. In Loving Memory, CTTS, & IWSMOFFY are some popular bands that have the dueling male/female vocals.

Don Martin 3-Fire As a Metaphor 4 some of the most amazing lyrics ever.

I think we're long over due for another wave of emo.

we gotta start doing fun **** with screamo, i just started a new post-Capulette band, and it's going to have ambient/noise influence

Fun **** or just different ****. The majority of anything new that's come out is just outright boring.

EDIT: and oh god yes, Fire as a Metaphor is just amazing.
DON MARTIN 3 / DON MARTIN THREE

i just started a 7 piece screamo band with some dudes in manila, the band oughtta be up when i get back there. we're gonna be called Guns Against Yama****a, and we have the best acronym on earth

Having those things doesn't mean they "push boundaries", I said that's why they're awesome.
If you read what I said I never mentioned they "pushed boundaries" at all.
I'm sure you could compare their lyrical subject matter to POP, but still, not their recording quality.
Don't disagree with most of that, but I think the same-old-same-old way they play is pleasing to the ears, maybe just because they know how to make music so well.
Well put, but you can't deny 1905 as a screamo band.
Even though I have them as crust punk in my itunes, there is a definitive "screamo sound" in their music.

i love

a case of grenada
hiretsukan
Indian summer
Off minor
Gauge means nothing (japan skramz)

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