By the time most of you read this, I'll be at Newport Jazz Fest for the weekend—the Jazz Gloria. I was hoping this would be a jazzy week for record club, too, but alas. I've said it on other emo albums, and I'll say it here too. I used to listen to this genre so much in high school, but I just can't get into it when it's a new-to-me emo band I'm hearing in my mid-thirties. I've outgrown this genre. I still feel nostalgic about bands I once loved, but I can't seem to get into anything new. I don't know. I feel like this album has a sort of congested sound, like there is no space to breathe; it's just a wall of music. It doesn't feel very compelling or very interesting to me at this point in my life; maybe if I had heard it closer to when it came out, it would be a different story.
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