Last Days Of April
Ascend to the Stars (Bad Taste)
by Tim Den
Goooooooodamn this band moves me. I ain’t being melodramatic here: Last Days Of April are single-handedly keeping the faith alive that Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity is not the only emo album in the world that can shake you from the foundations up. Not that they need to repeat themselves: Last year’s Angel Youth stunned me like a drink in the face, questioning my theory that “all emo albums after Clarity suck.” And now they’ve done it again with Ascend to the Stars, an album that leans more toward Wheat than emo (all for the better) yet never losing its grip on your tear ducts.
I can dissect the instrumentation all day long, but it would never do the band justice. It’s not about the physical make-up of the songs, it’s the songs themselves. The way they patiently gnaw at you with loving care, tugging at your memory until you cave in. Last Days Of April are the last emo band that matters.
(www.badtasterecords.se)