Death To False Metal
The Roscoes at the Silhouette LoungeThe Roscoes put the cherry on top at Silhouette Lounge on Monday, 16 October 2023.
Return Address, Fracture Type, and Voided Shape open the three-stack emo-stravaganza.
“Death To False Metal”
What’s that supposed to mean?
Easiest to take it at face value. The author doesn’t like metal that they perceive as inauthentic.
Nice deployment of the word ‘false’ instead of ‘fake.’ The former sounds classier, more authoritative, like they did some research into the subject and walked away with a deep understanding of the importance of rejecting inauthentic metal. ‘Fake’ sounds petulant, childish, lazy.
Don’t take any of it too seriously. Last week the same sign was directing people to a Taylor Swift concert. Who’s writing these things?
Someone’s taking the time to make the world a little more mysterious in front of Silhouette Lounge on a Hump Night.
Voided Shape
Voided ShapeA loud, medium-to-high tempo emo rock outfit in four pieces. Voided Shapes. Thus began a night of band names that sounded like plot points in a black metal-themed teen detective novel. The local giggers might have a new release called Tangled Mass coming before the end of October? Time will tell.
Fracture Type
Fracture TypeThis post-emo, post-hardcore bands sounds an awful lot like an emo, hardcore band. What’s the difference? Maybe the four-piece just got tired of genre boundaries, like most bands do, and want to stretch their wings and fly off into post-land wherever it might lead them. Fracture Type can go loud, go soft, and shows a good amount of subtlety with the latter. But you won’t wait too long before the drums signal another cannonball dive back into the abandoned quarry of guitar distortion and emo yelpery.
Return Address
Return AddressThe five-piece emo rock outfit Return Address brandished some interesting layered vocals. Kind of a SoCal-adjacent pitter buttered atop the crusty bread of emo rock patter. Did this band lowkey have the most emo name of the night? A preoccupation with a return address signals the perfect kind of crestfallen predisposition proper to the genre.
The Roscoes
The curveball of the night broke the string of emo rock with something like garage pop n roll. The Roscoes. Peppy tunes with bright progressions. The vibrato on the tail end of each lyric established a mood that led the whole room down a new rabbit hole to a realm different and distant to the previous bill. A detour, a surprise, a reset, a cherry on top. All that and more on a Hump Night.
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