Everybody’s favorite emo band is LOUDER NOW. Well, not really, but they’re as loud as they ever were, with guitars that triangulate the influences of math rock, 1990s alt rock, and ’80s metal, and the kind of heart-on-sleeve vocals that melt emo teens’ hearts. Still, there’s divergence from the emo template here; witness the poppy falsetto vocal hook in “MakeDamnSure” or the acoustic introspection of “Divine Intervention,” or even the twist-and-grind guitars of “My Blue Heaven,” which evoke King Crimson-via-Tool. In short, you don’t have to be an emo maven to get LOUDER NOW.

• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Pop
• Released: 04/12/2019