Word: emo
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Dressed in baggy jeans and a tattered sweatshirt, he looked humble and vaguely more ordinary than I had imagined. M83’s music is so imposing, so uniquely electro-emo, that I must have expected something hipper. When Gonzalez smiled, his mouth curled quickly around his nose and he crossed his arms...
...mounting feedback, culminating in Dose’s staccato proclamation that “whats wrong with the world has to do with those fell in love with New York or Los Angeles or Paris or Jerusalem /and me of course.” Pseudointellectual “emo-rap” artists like Atmosphere’s Slug could never get away with spouting off lines like these; Subtle’s avant-garde abstraction demands to be taken seriously, and shows enough scattered brilliance to redeem its occasional excesses...
Less overtly political and frenetic than Bordman and nowhere near as sludgy or mystical as the Body, Tiny Hawks reaches the sort of happy medium between political hardcore and existential emo as Sinaloa’s Fathers and Sons. Song lengths vary from the punk rock standard of around 2 or 3 minutes to the ridiculously short—three of the songs are 40 seconds or shorter, two of which cram just as many lyrics as any of the other songs, while the last, “You got the right,” is listed in the lyrics...
...most convincing displays of transcendence-by-banjo, just check out the congregation. At the Middle East club last Sunday, there was none of that self-conscious swaying-and-chanting stuff, but there was ample staring and a lot of smiling. The cynical, pierced ears of all the emo kids were melting...
...will probably take away from my ends / then I hope it take away from my sins” is his approach to the popular/religious music divide) while good singer-songwriters like Joseph Arthur and Pedro the Lion have been doing the same in indie music. If the folk and emo sensibilities of rap and indie-pop make these genres friendlier to religion than usual, these genres also tend to be more self-conscious, making the music itself better but making the audience harder to please at the same time...