Definition here is obviously very loose, basically chosen more from label/scene affiliations than any definition of "pure" emo. Feel like I listened to less than ever this year, but all of these really stuck with me. If anyone has any strong recs based on this list, I'm definitely open to hear them! The best emo record I heard this year was the Indigo De Souza (thx again to whoever brought it here), which is probably going to end up in the top 20 of my overall decade list. 1. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows 2. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow 3. Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets 4. Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter 5. Club Night - What Life 6. Katie Dey - Solipsisters 7. Rat Tally - When You Wake Up 8. Origami Angel - Somewhere City 9. Prince Daddy & the Hyena - Cosmic Thrill Seekers 10. Gender Roles - PRANG
Made a list idk Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows Oso Oso — Basking in the Glow Strange Ranger — Remembering the Rockets Hovvdy — Heavy Lifter Peaer — A Healthy Earth Bellows — The Rose Gardener Somos — Prison on a Hill Queen of Jeans — If you're not afraid, I'm not afraid Anna Flyaway — Tomorrow I Will Take a Knife to Your Confidence Macseal — Super Enthusiast Origami Angel — Somewhere City Future Teens — Breakup Season Club Night — What Life Glass Beach — The First Glass Beach Album Field Mouse — Meaning Lakes — Constance Dowsing — Sky Coffin pardoner — Playin' on a Cloud Long Beard — Means to Me Gender Roles — PRANG Jetty Bones — - E.P.* Friendship — Dreamin'* Empath — Active Listening: Night on Earth* Greet Death — New Hell* Proper — I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better* I also started making a playlist with stuff from all of the other lists that I've missed so keep 'em coming!!!! fuck i forgot empath edit: fuck i forgot friendship edit2: ok fuck it added a few things*
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows Strange Ranger - Remembering the Rockets Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter Peaer - A Healthy Earth Club Night - What Life Pardoner - Playin' On A Cloud Field Medic - Fade Into the Dawn Bellows - The Rose Gardener Prince Daddy & The Hyena - Cosmic Thrill Seekers Half Thought - S/T Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - Hot Spring Oragami Angel - Somewhere City Rosie Tucker - Never Not Never Not Never Not Lomelda - M for Empathy Shady Bug - Lemon Lime Slaughter Beach, Dog - Safe and Also No Fear Truth Club - Not An Exit Bad Heaven Ltd. - Strength Glued - Cool Evil
I haven’t listened to a ton of emo this year, but I really liked the albums from the following bands (no order): - Somos - Holding Patterns - Monplaisir - The Appleseed Cast - Overo - 55 Deltic - Anna Flyaway - Club Night - Brief Habits - Strange Ranger - Great Grandpa - Dowsing - Oso Oso I’m no doubt forgetting a bunch of stuff
So much good shit has gone out this year. There's albums that I LOVE that wouldn't even make my top 20.
Not rly sure what the parameters are for emo at this point, and my list would prob just be normie as hell, so I’m just gonna list some of the albums I loved that I feel didn’t get much recognition Downhaul - Before you fall asleep Sunstained - quiet my demons Cat geography - keepsake Casavettes - senselessness Our nameless boy - tomorrow I’ll be scared again Fox wound - it could happen to you Petrov - sleep year If only if only - s/t Moss jaw - embody Parkway and Columbia - wander Bad heaven ltd - strength Equipment - madrigal Overo - s/t American poetry club - a little light of our own Closure - yr only made of moonlight Sylvania ave / genius christ / record setter - split
My list(and what I post in this thread in general) is based on what I think people in this thread will like. We've definitely moved past the internet definitions of emo at this point lol
I forgot about that cat geography album. My sister who's a geography teacher and loves cats was so excited when I sent that to her lol