Transit
This Will Not Define Us
Barrett (2008)
Imagine it's the last part of 90's and you're some wide-eyed kid who thinks you're older late-teens brother is the coolest person in world. Your older brother also plays guitar in a cool band and owns records by bands named Texas is the Reason, The Get Up Kids, The Movielife, and Braid. One sad day your brother heads off to college, however before he goes he gives a final Chinese Haircut farewell, he gives you his guitar and a few mix CDs of 90's emo greatest hits. That scenario must have happened a lot in the last decade since there's been a sudden influx of scrawny kids playing melodic emo rock whose influences are worn as blatant as that all over print hoodie and those skinny jeans they all clad themselves with. Transit is yet another one of these bands. Everything on This Will Not Define Us reminds of emo's past even though its done by people ten years my junior. This Will Not Define Us is a bubbly snappy record with drifting melodies flowing from east to west of the songs only to be defined by moody breakdowns. The bridges use every emo trick in the book from screaming, … Read more
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Prizzy Prizzy Please
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Mute (2008)
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Deep Elm (2008)
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