Anxious - Little Green House (January 21, 2022) • Page 7

I agree, it's about exposure. They have the unique ability to tour on a multitude of bills and this should appeal to the emo side of their sound and hopefully gain some new fans along the way. It's risk/reward scenario. I think it's a smart move.

 

Especially when hardcore kids have been aware of them for a long while being on Triple B. Seeing them hop on and do a two song play on set at the outdoor Have Heart show in Massachusetts to 9,000 odd people certainly didn't hurt either as that's how I heard about them.

 

Did OSC play that show too?

 

Yep. It was:

Ammunation
Anxious (play on set)
One Step Closer (play on set)
Vein
Shipwreck A.D.
Down To Nothing
Have Heart

Still waiting on that Have Heart footage from Hate5six but that's an aside.

 

I imagine Ryan and Grady were in both bands at the time. Marathon performance.

 

Grady played with OSC at those shows on guitar (indoor and outdoor), but Ryan did not play with Anxious yet. Grady and the drummer are the only ones from the Anxious lineup still in the band.

 

So the other guitarist who did the vocals on Cold isn't in the band anymore? That's sad. I actually really liked his vocals when paired next to Grady's.

 

So per my 7”, Dante, who plays guitar now was the drummer. The recording says their bassist Sam Walter did backup vocals. So I’m pretty confused now. I was pretty sure their current drummer was with them for those Have Heart shows. Maybe Dante had already moved over and he looks different now?

 

I saw them play first with Drug Church / Mannequin Pussy / Angel Du$t last night. I thought they were brilliant and had so much energy. I heard the record when it came out and thought it was ok but I really love it now.

 

i still dont love this record but they were definitely fun opening for bayside

 

this feels like the most tours I have ever seen one band do in half a year

 

Realizing that growing up song reminds me of old pentimento

 

In April is the best emo song of 2022 apparently. Nice for the band!

https://www.theringer.com/music/202...ngs-ever-every-year-rites-spring-mcr-paramore

2022: “In April,” Anxious
Anxious feels like the perfect ending to a recap of emo’s history. The Connecticut band, whose straight-edge members are barely old enough to legally drink, were teenagers during the mid-2010 peak of emo revival, and like sad sponges absorbed everything the genre offered. Their harsh-clean vocal dynamics recall Touché Amoré and even early Fall Out Boy; their layered guitar hooks could be mistaken for a Jimmy Eat World cover band. The acoustic love song “Wayne” feels like a contemporary, less-self-loathing update on Dashboard Confessional. They even reference bands that broke up before they were born: The slanted rhythms of “You When You’re Gone” are a send-up of First-Wave giants like Texas Is the Reason and Penfold. But they’re not simply regurgitating their influences. On “In April,” they combine them into a song that’s greater than its parts: twinkling guitar melodies, dense rhythms, sing-screamed vocal harmonies, a quintessentially Third-Wave instrumental buildup to the final chorus. It sums to a band that sounds at once nostalgic and like a harbinger of emo to come. —AG

 

ive come around on this big time

 

got to see them today finally, in the middle of Rockefeller Center of all places, and were dope as hell. played 2 new and tracks and "When You're Gone" for the first time live supposedly.

 

How did the new songs sound? Pretty similar?

 

about the same energy I'd say

 

New anxious song is so good.

 

This is fucking great

 

Yeah. I love the backing vocals at the end of the song. Just as much as I love the backing vocals at the end of growing up song

 

Great song, great hook. Glad they're moving in this direction.

 

Very excited to see where this band goes from here. Song is great.

 

This is great. Very similar sounding to the newest Citizen album.

 

wonder if them and oso are doing a split since they're releasing tracks on same day before tour.

great tune.

 

song is tight