Summer Months is a pretty picture waiting to be seen. To the oblivious passerby, it may be easy to mistake Joie de Vivre for a copycat of yesteryear. With their wailing and soft-loud dynamics and an American Football-esque aesthetic, it’s all too easy to dismiss the Summer Months as just another throwaway emo band destined for failure. I’ll admit, it was even difficult for me to take them seriously as I tried listen after listen and found it too difficult to NOT compare them to look-alikes (Appleseed Cast, Mineral, Empire! Empire!, the list goes on and on). I kept yearning for something unique, something special so that I could honestly say I enjoy Summer Months. Could I cite the songwriting, or maybe the vocals? And then it came to me!- I stopped basing my judgements of Joie De Vivre off illustrious predecessors.
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