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