Photo by Rahim Fortune

“In antiquity and modernity, most loves fall apart / So let’s remain and curate this Parthenon of my heart,” sings Patrick Flynn on “Porch Light”. Whereas its surrounding listens in the celebratory brodown “The Boys” and the meditative grief catharsis in the title track off the Boston post-hardcore band’s new EP, Baby I’ll Change, more explicitly put the Fiddlehead frontman’s emotions into words, this listen’s poetic turn of putting pen to paper makes for a thing post-hardcore romance when navigating through the darker days of life’s seasons with a partner. “I’m talking, you’re turning. I’m listening, now learning.” Leveraging heart-thumping melodicism has always been the band’s stronghold, and here, it doubles as the power to make even the worst of times sound kind of beautiful when you’re fending off the leaves’ decay with a commitment to each other.

Fiddlehead’s Baby I’ll Change is available now on Run for Cover Records.