Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now (1998)

01. Arrows to the Action
02. Balancing Act
03. Change Is All the Rage
04. Cinema Stare
05. Cold Enough To Break
06. Hummingbirds
07. Katherine the Grateful
08. Please Shut Off the Lights
09. Shape of the Fear
10. Skip the Details


This album has been in my heavy rotation for about seven years now. It's the dude from The Jealous Sound if that means anything to you. 10 fantastic songs that most people have never heard but I stand by this 100% and guarantee your happiness in listening to it. RIYL: Braid, Samiam, The Promise Ring, Jawbreaker (but better than all of these bands).

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Why? - Alopecia (2008)

01. The Vowels Pt. 2
02. Good Friday
03. These Few Presidents
04. The Hollows
05. Song of the Sad Assassin
06. Gnashville
07. Fatalist Palmistry
08. The Fall of Mr. Fifths
09. Brook & Waxing
10. A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under
11. Twenty Eight
12. Simeon's Dilemma
13. By Torpoedo or Crohn's
14. Exegesis

"As expected, the band--Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid--continues its calculated blitzkrieg on that self-made jangle-rap, indie pop 'n' roll genre, but the stakes are raised."

Half of the songs are like this electronic indie rock and the other half is some weird indie hip hop. The album doesn't come out until March and there seems to be a bit of hype surrounding its release, so check it out.

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