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Bambi, the sophomore follow-up to Anxious’ great breakthrough debut, Little Green House, doesn’t officially arrive for a little over another month from now. Spoiler alert: as someone who has had the privilege of hearing it early and has since listened to it again and again (current count: 33 times,) these pages can confirm that it’s not just one of the year’s early standouts, but it’s likely to go down as a scene classic and career-defining effort from the Connecticut band. We’ve already heard two great singles that supercharge the quintet’s melodic hardcore strengths in “Counting Sheep” and “Head & Spin”, but it’s tracks like its latest preview, “Some Girls”, that really round out all corners of their intensely emotive sound with a hook-perfect punk-pop sparkle. “Do you think you’ll drown in the shadows in your room? / How to cope with it right when you don’t feel like it / Closing the blinds until you’re through,” vocalists Grady Allen and Dante Melucci harmonize, picking each word out with pins and knives to capture a confusion of feelings in fine detail. “Do you feel like you’re okay?” Honestly, not really, and that’s the feeling you want to leave on a listener after writing arguably your best song to date.

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Anxious’ Bambi will be released February 21st on Run for Cover Records.