Labels: Cross Your Heart and Hope to DIY
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Not sure I’ll ever get sick of lo-fi emo. Just a few people, playing some songs, haphazardly, doing a recording. Being sad, crying, falling over, playing beautiful chords, releasing a CDR in a package adorned with a railway track. All I really know about this is that Kyle from Your Neighbour the Liar has been involved, who the other 2 guys are, I have no idea. Julliard adopt time honoured emo fashions and refuse to tell you the song titles let alone members. Their music is downbeat and fretful emo, with sad sounding melodies and sobbed vocals. They sing lines like “Stop being sorry for me”. It’s the sound of guys who are upset about something, probably their life. That’s the best thing to get upset about after all. Of course, emo always gets stick because you put your life in perspective of someone who really has it bad, and it sounds stupid. What’s more important, kissing someone or just surviving? But there is no way of explaining away the human condition, we feel what we feel, we make mistakes and over-think and destroy ourselves in unnecessary fashions. That’s emo. Julliard make the kind of music I have been listening to for 14 years. I do not see this as a negative. I am with them every step of the way. It sounds like some badly recorded obscure emo 7″ single I bought off Skylab for $3 in 2001. I dunno, Strictly Ballroom (not so much the LP, but the singles) or something? Emo.as.fuck. Never give up. This was released on my birthday.