Loving the tigers jaw vibe.

Album Rating: 4.0

hm ok bud tell me about the front bottoms



are they as bad as their name

Album Rating: 4.0

actually they're one of the few mediocre tumblrcore pop punk bands i haven't heard shocking right



but i have a lot of friends that love them

Album Rating: 4.0

they're not pop punk but yeah





i also hate how the front bottoms are always compared to brand new, and vice versa. like wtf they're two completely different bands. tfb write clever lyrics about girls & drinking pbr over a poppish folk punk tune, while brand new just.......... doesn't do that.

Album Rating: 4.0

/rant

Front Bottoms don't seem pop punk based on their instrumentation but their aesthetic is very much rooted in the genre. like how Modern Baseball has all these quirky emo indie surface traits but they're very popular amongst the tumblrcore group and it's obvious why.

having said that, both bands have quite a few good songs, Front Bottoms moreso than Modern Baseball. say what you want about the consistency and lasting value of their records but "Funny You Should Ask" is soliddddddddddddd.

i also hate how the front bottoms are always compared to brand new

the front bottoms suck but modern baseball are on a whole different planet of sucking

Album Rating: 4.5

i've seen the front bottoms four times now they hold a special place in my heart and are attached to good memories but whatever. the s/t is one of my favourite albums lol

joyce manor however rule really good which i guess means i don't hate punk music which means the smith st band just suck plain

being a beacon of light comes with casting a lot of shade

i like the front bottoms songs twin sized mattress and skeleton but they are meaningless and the rest of their songs are real and true garbage imo imo

Album Rating: 4.5

like i've gone off that whole tumblrcore shit kinda now, like modern baseball are cool but i prefer other bands, i keep forgetting la dispute did an album last year, and I dont listen to the front bottoms nearly as much as i used to, but getting the chance to yell the lyrics Twin Size Mattress with my arms round all my mates numerous times will always be a sick time

Album Rating: 4.5

oh and Joyce Manor will always be total fucking sick

my friends band does a cover of twin sized mattress and it goes off i have screamed those lyrics dancing with friends before its a good time. front bottoms have their place but damn modern baseball are worthless. n don't get me started on dads


i made a new yrs resolution to not be so negative damn

Album Rating: 4.5

like gettin personal here but front bottoms lyrics obviously appeal to teenagers n that but they have enough early-20s whimsy in them to make them relatable to someone like me who's 21 and like having a way better time doing fun shit like getting fucked up and hanging w mates than i ever did when i was a wanker teenager and thought i was an introvert when really I just had no/shit friends

Album Rating: 4.5

American Radass I think is still cool. the album Dads put out last year is just them trying to make every song sound like Shit Twins except they all suck



Modern Baseball probably have a v great album in them idk. theyre probably better live. I'm glad they dropped the awful embarassing social network-referencing songs tho

yo spare you going to the Against Me/Joyce Manor show

best thing about front bottoms is their music video where everyone's really happy and then kevin devine gets impaled

Album Rating: 4.5

and for the record the guys in the front bottoms are total chill. I met them outside Camden sept 2013 just before their show and they talked to us and got a photo with us. I then saw them the April? just gone when they played Hit The Deck in Nottingham and after the show my partner had a panic attack or something in the toilets I was tryna find her and i was like 'shit dude, Brian Sella is by the stage talking to fans' so we went over and he actually remembered who I was, I was like 'hell yeah'. we were told they'd be playing Reading before any announcements were made. like i'm really glad theyre gettin all this attention now bc theyre top lads and they deserve it

front bottoms lyrics just remind me of all these bands recently in melbourne who spend all their time writing clever sounding one-liners that have no real meaning beyond some trivial togetherness or communal or self-depricating shit then mashing them together into a song and trying to pass it off as profound but it's just garbage and comes off really false and deceptive to me but im getting cynical and paranoid wrt the intentions of musicians lately

nah im not going to that show

im sure they all have the best intentions and are good guys or w/e but truly i just cant fuck w that kind of music anymore i think

Album Rating: 4.5

eh i dont blame you for that tbh