Today, in honor of Consequence’s 15th birthday, we’re just here to round up some of the very best twinkly, mathy, whiny, and emotive releases of the past 15 years. Bands who have been broken up for less than a decade can announce reunion tours, and those tours can sell out.īut this is not the place to discuss what is or isn’t emo. Many would say we’re now well into emo’s fifth wave, although plenty of revival-era acts are still adding onto their already-prolific discographies with no signs of slowing down. It’s no longer rare for blogs and forums that once detested the genre (yes, we’re probably guilty, too) to now praise it. You could argue that emo is in an even weirder place now. By the early 2010s, the emo revival had fully taken over. In a lot of ways, the subgenre was going back to its roots this new crop of impassioned indie rockers sounded like Sunny Day Real Estate, proclaimed their love for Rites of Spring, and openly admitted to ripping off Cap’n Jazz.
the emo revival - came in swinging, twinkly guitars and all.
In 2007, rock’s most misunderstood subgenre was on the brink of a total overhaul - sentimental pop-punk bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance had already released their most career-defining projects, bringing a close to what we now know as third-wave emo and clearing the path for something new in its wake.Īround the time Consequence was founded, fourth-wave emo - a.k.a. Today, Associate Editor Abby Jones runs down the best emo albums of the last 15 years.Įmo was in a weird place 15 years ago.
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It’s Consequence’ s 15th anniversary, and all September long we’ll be publishing a series of retrospective pieces encompassing our publication’s own history - and the entertainment landscape in general.
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