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Well, im going to conjure up a list of albums I'd recommend from various punk styles here. I could go on and on but Im trying to limit this to the really good stuff. I'm going to go in alphabetical order by band name(then album year of release if multiple albums) because thats how im sorting the list in my music player program thingy.

American Football/self titled/1999/emo/Urbana, IL



Emo might not be what you think it is. It started in the mid-1980s with the band Rites of Spring, because their songs fit under the hardcore punk banner, but at times they slowed it down, the lyrics were more introspective, and the vocals were more impassioned than heard before, though the lead singer of this band has said he doesnt agree his music is somehow more emotional than other types of punk at the time, but it does sound like it with the vocal delivery that sounds like Guy Piciotto(im:https://imgur.com/zi0ol4y) is broken and this is his release.

This album is different from Rites of Spring in many ways. The production is perfect. It sounds organic, but it doesn't sound overproduced. Sonically though, it's a treat for your ears, and it isn't really like other bands of the past that had more of an emotional hardcore sound, so the temp isn't super fast. It has elements of precise musicianship not found in most punk subgenres.

Now, this album comes from a mid-late 00s revival of sorts of Emo. I cannot use the word twinkly to describe this band or album even though I want to, because in doing so would conjure up memories of the "end" of the lifespan of emo. Yes, bands exist today in this same format, but once it started getting popular in the late 90s, the meaning of the term changed. It no longer was a punk subgenre started by accident in the mid 80s in Washington, D.C. and instead it had become related with MTV. As far as I see it, the term got more widely used, then people used it to describe any form of sad rock, such as on GameFAQs in the early-mid 00's, when somebody would complain on a PotD or CE forum they'd be met with a chorus of "CRAWLIN' IN MY SKIN" from the Linkin Park song. It was the BAWW of another generation. This is important to point out.

This is not a typical album in the sense it has a lot of drawn out instrumental parts. Songs "Honesty", "For Sure", "The One with the Wurlitzer", and "Stay Home" are all spacious and largely instrumental and fairly lengthy cuts. But I have to again recall the production. Not too overproduced. Just right. So listening to this is an audio treat.