#math pop

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Like Eating Glass • Helicopter • Positive Tension • Banquet • Blue Light • She's Hearing Voices • This Modern Love • The Pioneers • Price of Gasoline • So Here We Are • Luno • Plans • Compliments

Have you listened to Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (2005)?

Yes, the entire album!

Partially, some but not all songs

No, but familiar with it

Haven't heard of it before

Voting ended onMar 4

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[manymanybones]

Those Days Are Gone (2014)

Free Throw

Album

Rating: 7.5/10

Genre: Midwest Emo, Pop Punk, Post-Hardcore, Emo-Pop, Math Pop

Favorite Track: Two Beers In

I’m trying to get more into more emo music. I feel like a lot of my touchpoints for emo are very modern baseball-y. I really like the vocal sound that mom jeans and adjust the sails have but I want to expand a little bit because I know there’s more out there.

I really like free throw’s vocals. I feel like they are as intense as they need to be for the moments they live in. I also really like the use of guitar in this album. It’s so good.

[haveyouheardthisband]

Have you heard Everything Everything?

Yes

No but I've heard of them

Haven't even heard of them

Voting ended onDec 30, 2023

[tcacd]

Man Alive - Everything Everything (2010)

[bandcampout]

Pinback - Penelope - Blue Screen Life (2001)

[sound-bombing]

tricot - 3 (Topshelf, 2017) Genre: Math Rock, Math Pop Artwork: Hikaru Cho Bandcamp

[tiredsoundsofagnes]

if you like pretty and mathy midwest emo in TTNG style then check out this insanely underrated album from 2009

[clear-ear]

Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (2008)

Genre: noise pop, math pop, math rock, art punk, neo-psychedelia, noise rock

Length: 33:58

This is certainly one of my favorite albums of all time. Ponytail's Ice Cream Spiritual, when it first hit my freshman-in-college ears so many years ago, was one of the most unexpected and beautifully strange albums I'd ever listened to at the time. Even still, I can get goosebumps to the freshness of the intense, sparkling energy that flows from the amazing dual guitar work performed on this album by Dustin Wong and Ken Seeno.

Entirely manic. None of the lyrics you'll hear on this, save for the comedic, "Oh no, I'm late for school!" on Late for School, make any sense. Leadsinger Willy Siegel can be said to be "speaking in tongues" for the duration of the entire album. I will admit that the listener may find themselves a bit confused when Siegel starts the first track, Beg Waves, by making a kind of baby-like raspberry noise. Fear not, for Siegel's performance becomes the perfect complement to the rapid and explosive instrumentation throughout the entire record. You'll eventually find yourself dancing to insanity like I did.

My favorite track on this album is G Shock. That guitar breakdown is never going to leave my heart.

Links: YouTube | Spotify