#knope

[tcacd]

A Doggone Split - Knope / closure. / Good Sleepy (2019)

[emo-music-appreciation]

[letmusicspeaks]

[letmusicspeaks]

[joshua-egan-bassist]

An Exercise In Patience - Knope

This is a short yet memorable mid-west emo Ep. The instrumentation can be frantic with moving lyrics. Track one called 'broken couch' begins at a breakneck pace. Guitars have a bright tone to them and frequently play melodic phrases that accompany each section of the song. Lyrically this seems to be about a negative relationship and the lyricist coming to terms with it. The emotional tone is expressed greatly in the vocal delivery. An almost frustrated, harsh tone is sung through out, like the vocalist is really pushing their voice to the limit. The reoccurring theme of relationships is present on every track with different emotional outputs.

This Ep is a frantic yet extremely moving. This can be found in the dynamic changes of every song featured and the plenty of melodic parts that add colour to this EP. The track Shimmer begins with soft calm intro that builds in instrumentation. There's a dramatic shift in the second half serves as a release from the tension built up in the beginning.

The band masterfully mixes loud and soft sections together. During bigger, louder sections every element of the instrumentation can be heard clearly, even in its most musically dense moments.

[letmusicspeaks]

[letmusicspeaks]

[mysticalducknightmare]

Leslie: What have you learned from this?

April: Not to use violence to express myself.