Band: Cloud Nothings
Album: Attack on Memory
Best song: “Fall In” is impeccable.
Worst song: “No Sentiment” isn’t the best.

There are days when I really miss the second wave of emo. In many ways, I grew up on that stuff, as my formative years were bounced between my beloved post-rock and the Urbana-soaked second wave of Braid, Seam, Sarge and outliers like Sunny Day Real Estate, Jonah’s onelinedrawing and the like. I would listen to anything on Jade Tree, Parasol and other such labels. It was all good, though little of it was great. It was akin to the old notion of sex and pizza, though my friend Drew had a better analogy: hamburgers. A crappy hamburger is still good and the distance between the best hamburger in the world and the worst is not that great. Continue reading →