Category: emo

Now this album is amazing, this is real emo. If you feel nostalgic for bands such as mineral, appleseed cast, benton falls or penfold, then this album needs to be bought now. it really is that good, when I first heard empire empire  I thought it was a little know emo band from the 90’s I had missed, but no this album came out March 2010.

It is the perfect mix of heartfelt vocals, such as the song i am a snail, and you are a pace i cannot match,

oh, i ought to tell you the truth! i did not to come to plea for you.
where was your heart when your words led the truth anywhere else from you?
you’re not sorry, you are just scared,
i have not come to calm your fears
i am sorry i hid what you are.
but everyone else but me already knew! already knew!
and would not come to plea for you.
where was your heart when they never appeared?
anyone else would care.
but you would not shouldered the weight you should bear.
i will not shed a single tear.

its all delivered in way that mineral would be proud of. The guitars are all jangley, which is a staple for this type of gene, with it all being  in 3/4 or 6/8 timing which is another staple of the gene.

I can not say enough about this album so I will just let you listen to i am a snail, and you are a pace i cannot match.

10 I Am A Snail, And You Are A Place I Cannot Match

Caesura are four  guys from Winchester that cite the inspiration for writing their debut EP as personal loss, friendships, the band, being hospitalized and love. Their influenced by Explosions in the sky, The Appleseed Cast, and pretty much any of the old deep elm bands from the 90’s. I personally would call this English emo or post hardcore, but i think people would disagree.

I love the fact that all the songs are over 6 minutes long, and do not rush, building atmosphere and then bursting in to angular upbeat distortion, but make no mistake this album is not that upbeat in tone. The song structures are not very conventional, as in verse, chorus, middle eight. but they offer something really in the currant emo trend, which getting on my soap box a bit has been bastardised by the media and now is banded around as a joke, if you think my chemical romance and you and me at six are emo then this would be a good place to start to find out what emo really is all about.

here’s an mp3 from the album

Oh My God It’s the End of the World