Some stiff competition from a plethora of excellent recent emo does show, but Sweet Pill’s newest is still anything but a sophomore slump.
Tag: Hopeless Records
The kindest judgement that can be made on TX2’s debut is that their shameless, pitiful grift isn’t worse.
A much heavier, much mightier sound finds Pinkshift’s punk evolve, yet the potential and tenacity remains brimming, all the same.
In this Review Round-Up, output spans the great from Interlaker and Gore., to the solidly promising from Karen Dió, to the utterly tired from Acres.
As they crank up the volume and sharpen up the edges, Stand Atlantic’s pop-rock takes a turn to become some of their most vital work in years.
In this Review Round-Up, the best stuff is only okay from illuminati hotties and Trench, though it’s enough compared to a debut from WREX that’s even less than that.
With a mess of contradictions that feeds into most of how it can be valued, the uniqueness and extroversion of Scene Queen proves to be for the best, and the worst.
Even as survivor of pop-punk’s most disposable era ever, there’s no reason to expect even greater staying power from LØLØ on such an unremarkable debut.
Their disappointing last album is now firmly behind them, as Neck Deep return to the pop-punk that they know best, where it’s like they never even left.
In the process of reinvention and redefinition yet again, PVRIS instead fall into the worst impulses of 2010s alt-pop with very rare success in rectifying them.