| For further help click here.Million Miles Away: The...Million Miles Away: The...Million Miles Away: The...Million Miles Away: The...Million Miles Away: The...For the uninitiated, the Emo Diaries is a series of compilation CDs meant to expose the talents of independent 'emo' bands.Thursday and Seven Storey Mountain's Based on a True Story EP.One of the best segments of the disc comes when a really spacey, dreamy guitar line floats over the harder rhythm guitars, creating a really deep atmosphere to the music.The track bounds back and forth a few more times after that, though the harmonic backing vocals make this track stand out.The mixing on this track is awesome, especially the moment when the backing music continually grows louder (to the point of distortion) before just completely dropping away out of nowhere, leaving a delicate guitar in it's place.The lyrics, too, are key, though this reviewer must admit his partiality to socially conscious song topics.There are a few nice segues into a really nice 'poppy' bridge piece, but after the second bridge, the band drops out, and the vocals wail the track back to the rocking rhythm guitars before everything drops and lets a cascading guitar line take the song out.There's a nice little guitar solo going throughout the chorus parts, too.The track changes up a bit after the quiet bridge, and the guitars absolutely thrash for a while at that point.Godspeed You Black Emperor!Of course, this doesn't last, and when the guitars show back up, they reappear with a vengeance, shredding the living hell out of the track by kicking in the furious drumming and bringing the guttural screams and growls back out with them.While most of the material here tends to lean towards the more typical definitions of 'emo,' Chapter 7 still warrants itself to be one of the best comps Deep Elm has put together.Emo Diaries a much more than worthwhile listen by themselves.However, the rest of the material presented here is pretty cream of the crop as well, and once again, there's really not a bad track to be heard here.Featuring unreleased songs by Cross My Heart, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Starmarket (Sweden), Penfold, Last Days of April (Sweden), Speedwell, Schema (UK), Shoulder (Canada), Chase Theory, Psara (members of Piebald), Saddest Girl Story, Epstein, Ultramagg and Biblical Proof of UFOs.You may not know some of these bands, but everyone soon will.More about The Emo Diaries series.Some bands you may have heard of, some obscure you'll die to find.Diaries albums in a row, and it's pretty fascinating to see the way that this documentation of the emo style has changed just in the past two or so years.It seems that this style of music has evolved significantly, in part reverting back to its hardcore routes and also spreading outside our humble home, proving that America doesn't hold the only license to powerful, emotional rock."Perhaps the best continuing compilation around.But choosing 14 songs from the multitudes submitted isn't easy.The opener by Starmarket is a great, amped up track, with other dandies following by Planes Mistaken For Stars, Penfold (excellent!London, Ontario's own, Shoulder.You're guaranteed one of the finest compilations put together in recent years."Starmarket song which is first on this disc.Penfold is probably the top band on here in my opinion.But like I said, those are just the highlights of this chapter.Simply one of the greatest comps I've ever had the honor to listen to."Vulcan haircuts, sobbing while they scribble in their journals.The Emo Diaries series is your best bet at sorting through it all.Microchip
would you forget me.VW Keychain
when you asked me.One Thousand Directions
you don't have to wait until tomorrow.Kings
we awake in a strange day.Fracture
"As far as compilations go, this is about as quality as you can get."Skyscraper
"The best compilation series on this planet.Over the past ten years, this popular series has been Deep Elm's way of documenting an extraordinary and powerful style of music that possesses the ability to stir emotion like no other.Only the music mattered.Deep Elm has never attempted to define any musical style, as we believe any combination of songwriting, lyrics and live performance means something different to every listener.Unreleased songs by Oliver, Lock And Key, Hercules Hercules, Sounds Like Violence, My Name Is Nobody (Israel), Lukestar (Norway), The Holiday Plan (England), Chasing Victory (prev.Bailey Drive), Latitude Blue (England), A Month Of Somedays, Lost On Purpose and The Silent Type.Cross My Heart), Lewis, Dear Diary (Germany), Barcode (Sweden), Stuart (Sweden), Desert City Soundtrack, Hangin'On A Thread (Italy), Naht (Japan), Andherson, Honeysuckle Serontina (Canada) and Southpaw (England).Cursive), Benji, Billy, Cast Aside, The End of Julia, Eniac, Kerith Ravine, The Others, Reubens Accomplice, Slowride, Sunfactor (England) and The Walt Lariat.Brimming with all the best new talent in the underground, this is yet another fine chapter in Indie Rock's most talked about compilation series.Submission is open to ANY independent BAND, signed or unsigned, throughout the world.All decisions made are based upon the SONG, not the band.We listen to EVERYTHING we receive, but due to the number of submissions it is impossible to respond to bands who have not been selected.Selected bands will be informed about all details including worldwide promotion, publicity, marketing, distribution, royalties, etc.CDR, it will be discarded.If we are interested in your music, WE will be in contact with you.Sorry, packages cannot be returned and we do not comment on music that we pass on.Important Note: Upcoming podcasts will include a listing of bands that submitted music as well as clips of their music.The Emo Diaries Chapter Three
The Moment of Truth
Deep Elm
The past chapters in this series have given us quite a few great songs from bands falling under the vague emo umbrella.Listening through the fourteen tracks, I came to a realization that most of the songs I thought were good were actually just not as bad as the others.When I separated the songs I thought I liked from the rest of the comp and tried to listen to them here and there by themselves, they consistently made me want to push stop and eject.We ship to all countries outside the United States via AirMail.Other people who bought this also bought:M.His Grand Piano (Colorado Springs, CO), The Crash Engine (Portland, OR), The Decoration (San Francisco, CA), I'm Fashion, You're Victim (Kettering, England), Young Hearts (Brooklyn, NY), The City Beautiful (Rotterd...EMO IS EVIL 2 sampler is packed with 15 songs (56 minutes) from all of our new releases PLUS some Deep Elm classics as well.This is version 2 of our Hottest Selling Sampler Ever and it again delivers the intense combination of emotional songwriting, heartfelt lyrics and moving live performance often referred to as 'emo.Awesome or evil, it's all so undeniably good.It's a wonder why anyone else bothers with compilations when Deep Elm are the masters of the mix tape.Black Mountain and Download two weeks before the release date.Checkout these Secret City Records Releases for the HolidaysDownload live showsA new track every week!Definitely one of the few albums I can listen to start to finish without skipping a song, who would want to?If misery truly does love company, misery loves to listen to this CD while she cries for the pains and tortures these bands must go through, and smiles at how they, somehow, endure.Various Artists: Mullets Rock!Found
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