Your way in
Emo revival 2010
A new generation rediscovers the Midwest sound, this time with Bandcamp instead of fanzines.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 110-160 bpm
- Song length
- 3-5 min
- Written about
- Anxiety, Friendship and its failures, Place, Growing up online
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Emo revival | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 3 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2010 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Anxiety, Friendship and its failures, Place, Growing up online | 50% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 90% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. Emo revival leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Sunny Day Real Estate, Diary 1994
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary. The bridge between DC hardcore and everything that followed.
- 2The one to put on first
Algernon Cadwallader, Some Kind of Cadwallader 2008
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader. Cap'n Jazz reincarnated, unapologetically.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Emo, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Emo revival's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
-
Post-punk revival 89%
The same basslines and the same chill, revived every ten years with contemporary production.
6 steps from Emo revival, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Post-punk revival -
Neo-prog 87%
Prog's 1980s comeback, with digital keyboards, shorter songs and more melodrama.
7 steps from Emo revival, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Neo-prog
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 8.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 8.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 8.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.