The Upsides ended on many end of year lists, including my own. So there was no doubt that The Wonder Years' follow up to that record would be one of the most hyped records of 2011. Let that hype begin. The band has released all of the information for their new record
Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing, including the track listing (13 songs!!) and album artwork (seen to the left). To make things even better, they released the first track "Local Man Ruins Everything" for streaming. The band definitely shows a progression in the track, losing some of the pop-punk traits and adding in some definite influences from 90's emo. Though different from the band's older tracks, it's too soon to make any big judgments on the track. I want to hear the song in the context of the album, and we will see if
Surbubia can rival
The Upsides. You can stream the track
here. The album is out June 14th on Hopeless Records.
The only 90's emo influence is in the guitars - and even then, there's barely any. Sure, they got a little "twinkly" but that alone isn't enough to warrant a 90's influence. Besides, the song is still very heavily pop-punk, if not leaning a little more towards the punk spectrum.
ReplyDeleteWoooow, I didn't know you had to have a certain level of something to be influenced by it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying they weren't influenced by 90's emo at all. I know Soupy himself said that they were. But you can't pick that out from this song in particular. Maybe elsewhere in the album, but not here. This post says that it has loses "some of the pop-punk traits and [adds] in some definite influences from 90's emo." My question is, where? I don't hear it.
ReplyDeleteJust my opinion, bro. To me it sounds a lot less like The Upsides, or I Call Fives, or something of the sort.
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