Kodan Armada are very hott at the minute for a specific bunch of people who like a certain style of music. If you hang out on one part of the internet in particular you’d be forgiven for thinking that this band was the most popular musical act since U2, but that’s the power of the internet I guess. All of that said, Kodan Armada are definitely worthy of a significant amount of attention, and not least from the kids who appreciate the chaotic emo. This one track on here smears a healthy love of dynamic emo violence with a mental chaos that I would compare to earlier Vida Blue material. The multiple vocalists are extremely effective, screaming their hearts out and falling over. The music grooves and crashes in a mess of instrumenation that is occasionally melodic but often destructive. I like this a lot.
What Yr Damage on the other hand is a band that I have never ever heard of. They play a drawn out older emo style track which concentrates on the build up, with spoken vocals that get more and more urgent until it sounds like the whole thing is going to explode, before dropping things back down to start the process again, this time around they just play the song out to it’s conclusion whilst the singer grabs at his t-shirt and despairs. To me this song sounds like one of those that you’d find on an obscure mid 90s emo comp, where the band made one song and you’d spend ages trying to find anything else they did only to learn that they did nothing at all. I liked this a lot.