From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #252 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, November 1 2015 Volume 10 : Number 252 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] qualified rec: sundressed [outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] qualified rec: sundressed I queued up the new EP "The Same Condition" by Sundressed. I think I was thinking they were some other band with a smilar name? but I kept listening and it won me over, even though it's from a genre that I generally dislike (modern all-boy emo). But there are at least four things that salvage this for me -- solid pop hooks, effective harmonies, some non-color-by-numbers song structures, and some wry self-awareness in the lyrics (e.g., there's an anti-autotune tune that employs some autotune). Reminds me a bit of The Connells reimagined as emo, or a slicker, less lyrically interesting version of the Weakerthans. If you hate hate hate emo you may not be able to get over it, but I'm only at one emo-hate, and I'm pretty impressed. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #252 ********************************