Dopesmoker

Beautiful record, the usual Fine Before You Came trademark (someone also told me there’s a bit of "Distal" from the friends at Derby, which fits) and the last three tracks are the standout. "Sfortuna" was a whole different story, there were anthems and sweat. As far as I'm concerned, the lyrics are always a pleasure to read, earthly snapshots of everyday life, but if we want to get all arty then long live Patti Smith, long live post-Beat hysterics, and long live being cryptic, which is the new black. You're talking to someone who gets all worked up over lyrics like "peanuts skinny molotov cocktails on a starved stomach on Sunday afternoon," so maybe I'm the jerk here. Being serious, the Fine Before You Came guys have a rather personal sound and attitude; in Italy, there aren't really any true counterparts—if anything, they were completely Braid/Get Up Kids in the days of their early albums (which are great, by the way).

Credible punk rock in 2011: Joyce Manor. Credible punk rock in the nineties (boiling it down): Jawbreaker. Simple equation. They were my ten years and many memories.

I've always liked it up to "Walls," but this whole thing about the song Thom York has become incredibly annoying in every possible way.

Discone, very harsh. Between Branca and Chatham I wouldn't know whom to choose. Perhaps the former has coined a sound that’s definitely more recurrent in "rock" rather than in other, freer forms. Among the two, I would include the good Arto Lindsay, capable of merging the harshness (less tonal work, more rhythm) of those two orchestrators and bringing it to a completely crazy and noisy form in a Punk context.

For me, "Up On The Sun" is even better; it's an incredible album, and they rank among the sacred cows of the golden years of SST.

I'M REPLYING HERE TO COMMENT 34, WHICH THE SERVER IS GIVING ME PROBLEMS: These seem to me like typical rants from Italietta. In America, screamo has been on the decline for five years (only shit albums, even outside America, I can honestly remember a maximum of five that are truly valid) "qualitative," and for the same amount of time, these math emo groups, rip-offs of Kinsella, are proliferating. And mind you, a big part of them is really impressive: Midwest Pen Pals, Snowing, Boy Problems, Street Smart Cyclist, You Blew It! and so on. There, they talk about playing, chicks, and beer; here we think about scene points. More wanking, more YouJizz, more records bought and people mingled with. This talk of scenes and hype is just a waste of time for stuff that still doesn’t even monopolize a minimal slice of the market. Not to mention Witch House (Chino Moreno is not making an emo album), rather this phenomenon you mention, seagull, could be something related to the late nineties, early two thousands (and even then the positive proposals were in the majority). That Lietti's blog has become (and always has been) unbearable and that everyone has now dropped the Bloc Party shirt in favor of that of LaQuiete might be true, especially in your parts, but we're talking about minimal transient phenomena. All stuff that will pass, but people like Do Nascimiento, or all the groups mentioned here, don’t just come out of nowhere today, as someone rightly pointed out earlier, and I don’t see why they should be lumped into this hipster talk that, I repeat, in this context can at times be quite funny: why do fifty people still show up at the concerts? These discussions are a waste of time, especially when looked at with a "historical" rebuttal.

Best Italian emo album of last year is by them, along with Riviera, the most Kinsella band we have. I want to enjoy them live!

It's the least beautiful album by Stewart, as far as I'm concerned. Better than the last one "Dear God, I Hate Myself", without wanting to bring up the first four epic ones.

People who really bled: discone. To be placed on the shelf next to Jesus Lizard, Unsane, and Scratch Acid.

Whoever says that Italian proposals are few is probably used to not looking beyond their own keyboard (or trackpad if you’re super cool). If you step out of your house – whether you’re in Genoa, Bologna, Turin, Arezzo, Naples, Rome, Milan, Emilia, Friuli (just to mention the first creative hubs that come to mind) – you realize that your neighbors are as distant as the Gazebo Penguins when talking about "recent" influences. Making music is not about the records reviewed by OndaRock, nor is it about writing two random thoughts up here. And in Italy, just like in Azerbaijan, there are people who genuinely work creatively and bring out great things. For instance, do you know who Holydays collaborates with (and we’re not even talking about totally my cup of tea)?