Brain Vomit #21: Emo revival

Things go through cycles, what is old is new again and today's teenagers are bringing Emo back. The music I used to be made fun of and stuck to it when I was 17. And now at almost 35 I’m sticking to it harder than ever. I guess we all get nostalgic, we realize that time goes on and we leave more and more behind. Listening to music from that era reopens old wounds you thought have healed long ago, brings you back to a time when you were naive. We long for those first experiences, old friends, your first job, your first car, being independent at an early age, falling in love for the first time and heartbreaks. When you stop to think about it my life wasn’t better than, in comparison my life now is perfect. Yet we have idealized versions in our minds that make us long for times past.

No other band takes me back to being a naive 18 year old going through stages of our lives, losing innocence and becoming an adult like The Jealous Sound. It’s like the soundtrack to a movie formed with memories in my head. So cinematic and sad. A thousand tiny cuts to the heart. Painful and pleasant. Like being wrapped around in your comfiest warm blanket while you are wrapped around the toilet vomiting your food poisoning. Doesn’t get any emo than this. I guess why they didn’t become the biggest Emo band ever is because they didn’t follow the fashion part of that era, mostly because they were older than everyone else at the time. I really hope with this Emo revival The Jealous Sound gets the recognition they deserve and starts playing some shows. Maybe a new Album though I think in order to write such beautifully melancholic songs you have to be in a state of deep depression. I don't wish that on anyone, their current songs will do just fine. I just want more though. Like the impulse to keep vomiting when all the bad inside of you has come out, the rapture of purging your melancholic memories. No real emo revival is complete without The Jealous Sound.