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According to The Chicago Reader critic Leor Galil, the second-wave bands of the Midwest emo scene "transformed the angular fury of D.C. emo into something malleable, melodic, and cathartic—its common features included cycling guitar parts, chugging bass lines, and unconventional singing that sounded like a sweet neighbor kid with no vocal training but plenty of heart."
Shmap'n Shmazz is regarded as a foundational album of Midwest emo and a milestone in the genre, helping emo become a more widely accepted subset of indie rock. All of the album tracks were re-released on the band's anthology album Analphabetapolothology , and Cap'n Jazz reunited in 2010 and 2017 to perform tracks from the album.
Cap'n Jazz reunited at the Empty Bottle on Friday, January 22, 2010, as part of Joan of Arc's Don't Mind Control Variety Show. [7] After playing a short, impromptu set in Chicago, the band played its first official reunited show at the annual Forecastle Festival in Louisville on July 10, 2010, [8] and a hometown reunion show a week later at the Bottom Lounge, supporting the vinyl re-release of ...
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This is a list of Midwest emo bands. This is not a list of emo bands from the Midwestern United States, ... Sunny Day Real Estate [66] Sweet Pill [67] T.
Tim Kinsella is an American musician, author, and film director from Chicago, Illinois.. Known for his eccentric singing voice, [1] he first rose to prominence as lead singer and lyricist of the emo band Cap'n Jazz which he co-founded with his brother Mike in 1989.
Smith experienced an overwhelming amount of grief in the period since the group's last album. "It was an awful time," he said. "The entire older generation of my family died in the first few ...
A four song "Demo" was released in 2006, with more of a heavy influence from the math-rock/Midwest emo genre, than their previous project. Lyrical content however, was a more upbeat, happy musings of personal experiences or day to day life, than the darker, more somber tones the emo genre had been known for.