Chorus.fm Record of the Week Club • Page 15

Just remove me from the rotation

 

@WadeCastle go ahead and make your pick if you're ready, I don't want you to lose another day

 

I'll stay in and try to be better about keeping up with this thread.

 

my pick is We Are The Air by Josephine Collective. this is their only full-length album amongst demos and EPs and it holds a special place in my heart because it blends all the genres i love, pop punk, metal, post hardcore, screamo, emo, lil dance thrown in there. it was recorded by John Feldmann so all these years later sonically it holds up. bummer they never released anything afterwards but this one and done is a hell of a catchy album. i hope you all enjoy it and take a blast back in time with it! :)

 

Never heard of them, excited to check it out

 

after one song, I really don’t think this album is gonna be for me but I’ll be fair in my assessment of it

 

Lye isn’t bad

 

Leave Me Love is fun

probably my favorite

 

Ivy League is brutal

 

just finished the album. I was right, it’s not for me, though there were a few bright spots along the way.

 

this is their sole music video, I've seen some of their live videos through youtube and their sets always looked chaotic and fun! when the time machine is finally invented I'll go back in time and catch a set!

 

Feels similar to the Ambry album, in that it's pretty clearly a band that revered the scene icons of their era, but in this case it's Underoath and Silverstein and The Used instead of Taking Back Sunday and Thursday. I can't imagine how cool it must have felt for these guys to get picked out of the Myspace jungle by John Feldmann.

I was into a lot of bands that sounded like this in 2008 (and was also in one), and I can see myself being into some of these songs at that time, especially the more pop-punk leaning ones. Now, without any specific nostalgia for it, it's far too of its era to appeal to me when I could throw on one of the albums I was actually listening to then.

"Leave Me Love" is such a relic of the early GarageBand crunkcore era, which I would definitely like to leave in 2008 and never think about again.

 

Well I tried...

 

Those deep v necks really bring me back

 

After the first couple songs I was dreading a brutal listen but there’s some pretty solid hooks throughout this. The singer sounds super familiar.

The lyrics are horrendous, either full of the typical scene cliches or just weird/gag inducing “You’re my pretty pretty princess” ooof.

while I didn’t love this or Ambry, I think they’re great picks. It’s fun to look into the past and wonder what the fuck we were doing

 

Ivy League is far and away the worst song imo

 

Unfortunately wasn’t for me either. Was like opening a time capsule from the early 2000s haha

 

not trying to dunk on @WadeCastle because they’re good people but yeah this was a rough one

 

The song in that music video was catchy.

 

listened to the first 2 songs and thats all i'll say

 

2008 seems like a lifetime ago, dillon devoe the vocalist sings under his current project dead idol

 

all good homie! i had the album in mind when the thread started and then as all the shoegazey/emo/poppy/indie stuff was posted i was like oh yah, no one is gonna like this 2008 release LOL

 

I would agree that even if this particular record isn't resonating with people, it's an interesting and unique choice and you shouldn't feel bad about people not being into it. It's fun to revisit stuff like this, even if it feels a lifetime away from what I listen to now. Like what you like!

 

well said ^

 

it’s Friday