Trophy Eyes

It's really about time I post these guys.  Everything about them and their music is phenomenal, and they have a pet cactus that they keep at their merch table.  Anyway, Trophy Eyes are a melodic hardcore/pop punk band from Newcastle, Australia.  They play very aggressive melodic hardcore with pop punk elements.  Their music is very thematic, focusing on issues like death, sickness, growing old, relationships with family and friends, and love lost.  They're an all-around phenomenal band that I definitely recommend.  My favorite releases are Mend, Move On and their 2013 demo.

Demo (2013)

1. Chacho

2.Personal Taste

Everything Goes Away (2014)

1. May 24

2. Cutting Teeth

3. Bandaid

4. Hourglass

5. Fortunate

Mend, Move On (2014)

1. My Name On Paper

2. Come Clean

3. Convalescence

4. Family Name

5. Responsibility And Structure

6. Best Man

7. In Return

8. White Curtains

9. Choke

10. Ugly Pattern

11. Penfold State Forest

Tired Hearts (2015)

1. Tired Hearts

Worst Party Ever

Worst Party Ever are a 4-piece punk/emo/indie/who knows band from Sarasota, Florida.  They've released several EPs and demos on Bandcamp, which garnered a lot of attention from fans of lo-fi music.  They have a very niche following, but they deserve more attention, so check them out.

Money (2014)

1.Sleeping With My Cellphone

2.Wires

3.You Don't Party

Worst Party Ever (2014)

1.Sleeping With My Cellphone

2.I Drive Past A Light Store on The Way To Your House

3.Lakes

Super Soaker (2014)

1.Kicking Myself In The Face

2.Come On, Guys

3.Lakes (Acoustic)

Split with Cheap Haircuts, Worst Party Ever, Junior College, and I Am Clark Kent (2015)

1. Real Sports

2. Dewey

We Still Love You (2015)

1.Kicking (myself in the face) 

2.1:30

3.Come on, guys

4.Swimming

Trying Soda (2016)

1.Big Wave 

2.Trying Soda (I Know You So Well

3.Brian, in Tampa

4.Creeper (Instrumental

TANKINI

Here's another submission from Juan.  TANKINI are a pop punk band whose lyrics focus a lot on LGBT issues.  I know literally nothing about this band aside from the fact that they're from Olympia, Washinton.  Juan has reached out to the band multiple times with no response, so they may not even be active anymore. One of the most mysterious bands I've ever heard of.

do u suk (2015)

1.We Sat On The Porch

2.Showering With The Lights Off

3.Chew The Fat

4.Hands In Fists

5.Grinding My Teeth

Sworn In

Sworn In is a metalcore/hardcore band from Grayslake Illinois.  I haven't listened to these guys very much, but what I have heard has been *iDubbbz voice* pretty good.  These guys go hard, and their lyrics do too.  I don't have much to say about them aside from the fact that they're good, so go ahead and check them out.

Catharsis EP (2011)

1. Catharsis

2. Welcome To The NHK

3. Independence

4. Ex

5. Undefeatable

Start/End EP (2012)

1. Start

2. Opportunist

3. Apex

4. Beggars

5. The Deviant

6. End (Ft. Colin Sharkey)

Let Down (2012)

1. Let Down (ft. Chad Ruhlig

The Death Card (2013)

1. XIII

2. Hypocrisy

3.Mindless

4.Dead Soul

5.Senseless

6. A Song For The Nameless

7. Snake Eyes

8.Deadpan

9. Mute

10. Three Cheers

11.Bitter Blood

12.Death

13. Return (Heartless)

The Lovers/The Devil (2015)

1. Sweetheart

2. Sugar Lips

3. I Don't Really Love You

4. Oliolioxinfree

5. Waltz

6. Pins And Needles

7. Lay With Me

8. Weeping Willow

9. Pocket Full Of Posies

10. Sunshine

11. Scissors

12. Sour

13. Love Drunk

Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley is a four piece folk band (more indie pop in their later stuff) formed in 1997 and based in Los Angeles.  Their music has been used in several TV show promotions, the most notable of which are Orange is the New Black and Weeds.  Their first EP, Initial Friend EP, was pressed three times, and all pressings are the same aside from one different track on each one.  The version I have is a compilation of all songs from the pressings.  One song from this EP, "The Frug," was featured in the soundtrack to the movie Desert Blue, and the director of the movie went on to direct the music video for the song., which is pretty neat.  This band is one of the few female-fronted bands I enjoy.  For some reason I usually just don't go for female vocalists.  In 2001, they released their first full-length, Takeoffs and Landings, through Barsuk Records.  In 2002, they released their most popular album, The Execution of All Things, with Saddle Creek Records.  They released a third full-length, More Adventurous, through Warner Brothers in 2004.  This album is distinctly more poppy, with WB probably to blame. They released another album, Under the Blacklight, in 2007, again with WB, which is without a doubt their most pop-influenced album.  It's still pretty good music, but not their best.  They went on hiatus from 2010-2013, when the band broke up after releasing their best of album, Rkives, which is a bunch of demos, remixed and unreleased songs.

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The Initial Friend EP (1999-2000)

1. The Frug

2. 85

3. Glendora

4. Papillon

5. Teenage Love Song

6. Asshole

7. Sword

8. Steve

9. Keep It Together (Hidden Track)

Takeoffs and Landings (2001)

  1. Go Ahead

  2. Science Vs. Romance

  3. Wires And Waves

  4. Pictures Of Success

  5. August

  6. Bulletproof

  7. Plane Crash In C

  8. Variations On A Theme (Science Vs. Romance)

  9. Small Figures In A Vast Expanse

  10. Don't Deconstruct

  11. Always

  12. We'll Never Sleep (God Knows We'll Try)

  13. Rest Of My Life

  14. Variations On A Theme (Plane Crash In C)

  15. Salute My Shorts! (Spectacular View)

The Execution of All Things (2002)

1.The Good That Won't Come Out

2. Paint's Peeling

3. The Execution of All Things

4. So Long

5. Capturing Moods

6. A Better Son/Daughter

7. Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight That Surrounds You

8. My Slumbering Heart

9. Three Hopeful Thoughts

10. With Arms Outstretched

11. Spectacular Views

12. And That's How I Choose to Remember It

X-Mas Cake - Single (2003)

1. X-Mas Cake

More Adventurous (2004)

1. It's a Hit

2. Does He Love You?

3. Portions for Foxes

4. Ripchord

5. I Never

6. The Absence of God

7. Accidntel Deth

8. More Adventurous"

9. Love and War (11/11/46)

10. A Man/Me/Then Jim

11. It Just Is

Under the Blacklight (2007)

1. Silver Lining

2. Close Call

3. The Moneymaker

4. Breakin’ Up

5. Under the Blacklight

6. Dreamworld

7. Dejalo

8. 15

9. Smoke Detector

10. The Angels Hung Around

11. Give a Little Love

Rkives (2013)

1. Let Me Back In

2. It'll Get You There

3. Runnin Around

4. All the Drugs

5. Bury, Bury, Bury Another

6. Well, You Left

7. Draggin Around

8. I Remember You

9. Dejalo (Zondo remix featuring Too $hort)

10. A Town Called Luckey

11. Emotional

12. American Wife

13. Patiently

14. Rest of my Life (Demo)

15. About the Moon

16. The Frug

Citizen

Citizen began as a pop punk band in 2009, but their sound quickly evolved into emo/post-hardcore similar to Title Fight, Turnover, and Balance and Composure.  I never really got into these guys, but out of all their music, I think Young States is my favorite release.

Demo (2009)

1. Hell Or High Water

2. Pyrrhic Victory

3. Glory Days

4. From The Heart

5. Holy Toledo

The Only Place I Know (2011)

1. Citizen - Fremont

2. Citizen - Walking Distance

3. Citizen - Common Weather

4. The Fragile Season - Father's Pride

5. The Fragile Season - Mediumship

6. The Fragile Season - The Night You Showed Me Hallelujah!

Acoustic (2011)

1. Tracking Time

2. Fremont (Acoustic)

Either/Or and More Vol. 3 (2011)

2. Barbara Ann (Beach Boys cover)

Young States (2011)

1. Untitled

2. Young States

3. I Still Shut My Eyes

4. Detached

5. Right Through

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (2012)

1. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths cover)

Citizen/Turnover (2012)

1. Citizen - Drown

2. Citizen - I'm Sick Of Waiting

3. Turnover - Permanent

4. Turnover - No Sun

Acoustic EP (2012)

1. Drown (Acoustic)

2. I'm Sick Of Waiting (Acoustic)

Youth (2013)

1. Roam The Room

2. Figure You Out

3. The Summer

4. Sleep

5. How Does It Feel

6. The Night I Drove Alone

7. Speaking With A Ghost

8. Your Head Got Misplaced

9. Sick And Impatient

10. Drawn Out

Youth Bonus Tracks (2013)

1. How Does It Feel? (Acoustic)

Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation (2013)

5. Cicuta

Full compilation

Silo (2014)

1. Silo

Everybody Is Going To Heaven (2015)

1. Cement

2. Dive Into My Sun

3. Numb Yourself

4. Heaviside

5. My Favorite Color

6. Weave Me (Into Yr Sin)

7. Stain

8. Ten

9. Yellow Love

10. Ring Of Chain

PUP

PUP play a style of punk that comes very close to being rock n' roll.  They released two 7"s under the name Topanga, then released their self titled and The Dream Is Over.  I only have one Topanga release, so if anyone has the other, please send it to me.  My favorite release is The Dream Is Over.

EDIT: Props to the fucking man Juan for the Topanga releases.

Topanga Demo (2012)\

1. Oceans

2. Mabu

3. Guilt Trip

4. Lionheart Mix 5

5. Never Try

Oceans (2012)

1. Oceans

2. Mabu

PUP (2014)

1. Guilt Trip

2. Reservoir

3. Mabu

4. Never Try

5. Yukon

6. Dark Days

7. Lionheart

8. Cul-de-Sac

9. Back Against The Wall

10. Factories

The Dream Is Over (2016)

1. If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will

2. DVP

3. Doubts

4. Sleep In The Heat

5. The Coast

6. Old Wounds

7. My Life Is Over And I Couldn't Be Happier

8. Can't Win

9. Familiar Patterns

10. Pine Point 

The Hotelier (formerly The Hotel Year)

The Hotelier are a four piece emo/punk band from Massachusetts.  I have to say, this is one of my favorite bands of all time.  Their second full length, Home, Like Noplace Is There is one of my favorite albums of all time.  Everything they've released has been amazing, and their latest album came out earlier this year.

We Are All Alone (2009)

1. The Sun Also Falls

2. Extinction

3. Southern Discomfort

4. Bird Brain

5. A Rhapsody In Black

6. A Rhapsody In Blue

7. Searching

Two Song Demo (2009)

1. Even The Keys Need To Be Locked Up

2. Named After An Inside Joke

It Never Goes Out (2011)

1. Our Lives Would Make A Sad, Boring Movie

2. Vacancy

3. Lonely Hearts Club

4. An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club

5. Weathered

6. I'm Gone

7. Holiday

8. Still Water Spectacle

9. Title-Track (There Is A Light)

Fest 12 Split (2013)

1. Dikembe - I Watch A Lot Of Jackie Chan Movies (Acoustic)

2. The Hotel Year - Settle The Scar

3. Modern Baseball - Voting Early

4. Old Gray - The Foxes Begin To Starve

5. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - The Hour of Pearl

6. Pentimento - It Happens To The Best Of Us

Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014)

1. An Introduction To The Album

2. The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding

3. In Framing

4. Your Deep Rest

5. Among The Wildflowers

6. Life In Drag

7. Housebroken

8. Discomfort Revisited

9. Dendron

Goodness (2016)

1. N 43° 59' 38​.​927" W 71° 23' 45​.​27''

2. Goodness Pt. 2

3. Piano Player

4.  N 43° 33' 55​.​676" W 72° 45' 11​.​914"

5. Two Deliverances

6. Settle the Scar

7. Opening Mail for My Grandmother

8. N 42° 6' 3​.​001" W 71° 55' 3​.​295"

9. Soft Animal

10. Sun

11. You in This Light

12. Fear of Good

13. End of Reel

Turnover

It's about time I posted these guys.  I saw them with Citizen, Sorority Noise, and Milk Teeth about two months back and they were phenomenal.  Their earlier stuff is almost textbook pop punk, but from Magnolia onwards, their music begins to sound more and more like emo/indie/shoegaze.  In all honesty, their past two releases remind me a lot of Day Wave.  My favorite release is Peripheral Vision.

Demo 2009 (2009)

1. Life In Stillframe

2. Sleepless Nights

3. Distant

4. Bernstein Cougars

Turnover (2011)

1. Sasha

2. Solitude

3. Time

4. Sleepless Nights

5. Waiting

Waiting - Acoustic (2011)

1. Waiting (Acoustic)

Citizen/Turnover (2012)

1. Citizen - Drown

2. Citizen - I'm Sick Of Waiting

3. Turnover - Permanent

4. Turnover - No Sun

Magnolia (2013)

1. Shiver

2. Most Of The Time

3. Wither

4. Seed

5. Bloom

6. Pray For Me

7. Hollow

8. To The Bottom

9. Like A Whisper

10. Flicker And Fade

11. Daydreaming

Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation (2013)

11. Flicker And Fade

Full compilation

Ivy League TX/Turnover/Maker/Such Gold (2014)

1. Ivy League TX - Cave

2. Turnover - I Would Hate You If I Could

3. Maker - Here She Comes

4. Such Gold - Framed

Blue Dream (2014)

1. Disintegration

2. Read My Mind

3. Bella Donna

Peripheral Vision (2015)

1. Cutting My Fingers Off

2. New Scream

3. Humming

4. Hello Euphoria

5. Dizzy On The Comedown

6. Diazepam

7. Like Slow Disappearing

8. Take My Head

9. Threshold

10. I Would Hate You If I Could

11. Intrapersonal

Humblest Pleasures (2016)

1. Humblest Pleasures

2. Change Irreversible