I heard this album/EP when it first came out a few years ago because the band was coming into town or touring with another cool band or both or something and the name stuck with me because of its sense of relief that also betrays abandonment or social misfitting or something. The music is along the lines of "90s emo" revival more along the rock music side of things than screamo, although the singer is like the Hot Water Music or Lay Down Mains singers where its not quite a vicious scream but more like a harsh yell-sing thats emphasized but not dramatized and understandable but not at all in your face. Very relatable, almost overtly simplistic statements like someone would say in conversation to someone they know well enough to just talk in normal terms that say more between the lines than linguistics can math.
"Curbside" and the title track both bridge between sullen apartment-indie meanderings both on guitar and in the vocals into quasi-core quasi-singalong parts with rhthym buildups to indicate emotion. That's a trope in this general world of music that's been overplayed in my opinion but it's done well here. The other songs are a bit more carried in their flow but still have an ache about them that is trying to feel better but fucks up all the time and is sorry about it.
I would like to see this band live if they're still playing, but I don't really hear about things anymore because I don't feel like I should put out the time to continue doing things I liked for a long time, because that was a long time ago and I don't know what I like anymore.
Highly recommended.
https://imgladitsyou.bandcamp.com/album/june
