Stream Pittsburgh screamo band Annakarina’s stunning new EP ‘Always Moving Forward’
Last month, Pittsburgh screamo band
Annakarina (who share members with Short Fictions, Shin Guard, Scratchy Blanket, and Coma Regalia) released their first song in five years, We Are Passing, which we named one of the best punk songs of November. Today, they surprise-released the two-song EP
Always Moving Forward, featuring that song and the new You Weren t Ready. Compared to the harsher We Are Passing, You Weren t Ready starts out on the more melodic emo/post-rock side with soaring clean vocals and gorgeous horn lines, and the nearly-seven-minute song builds and builds until it reaches a heavy, cathartic climax.
15 Great Screamo & Post-Hardcore Releases of 2020
After its 90s/early 00s heyday, screamo became an overly misused word within mainstream music, and most of the genre s best bands headed even deeper underground, maybe referring to themselves as skramz or emoviolence, but continuing to make great music no matter what anyone called it. The genre never went away, and its influence has continued to pop up within popular emo, post-hardcore, and metal bands, but lately it s felt like there s a real screamo resurgence happening on a wider scale than we ve seen in years. 2020 birthed a ton of great screamo and screamo-adjacent post-hardcore releases, and I ve picked 15 that stood out to me most, plus a handful of honorable mentions. I m not framing it as the 15 best because there s so much great music in this realm happening all around the world (and my list is admittedly US-centric), and I d rather just showcase a bunch of the ones I loved rather than start arguments about how I ranked t