With their respective debuts in 2018′s what people call low self​-​esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you and last year’s in spite of, lowercase letter aficionado screamo bands in San Jose’s awakebutstillinbed and Columbus’ for your health carved out anxiety and existential chaos from only bedroom walls and basements for a whole new generation of listeners in their scene. hymns for the scorned, a split EP featuring two songs from both, make both sound bigger than that. Like MTV2 peak commercial emocore big. Both mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor) and with fyh’s half produced by Chris Teti of the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die (who maybe the only studio guru besides Will Yip doing scaled-up production justice for today’s current of modern punk and hardcore bands,) these are only hints at how both artists have not only burned down former walls, but are now building towers with their furious elegies.

Highlights: “Fear”, “Ride”, “Disarmament”, “For the Pyrrh of Heart”

awakebutstillinbed & for your heath’s hymns for the scorned is available now on Twelve Gauge Records.

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