Watch SeeYouSpaceCowboy's video for new song "The End To A Brief Moment Of Lasting Intimacy"
Pre-order our exclusive splatter vinyl variant of the new SeeYouSpaceCowboy album.
SeeYouSpaceCowboy have shared another single off their highly anticipated sophomore album The Romance of Affliction, and it gives you a great idea of this band’s ever-changing, multi-faceted approach to post-hardcore, with everything from harsh screamo to clean-sung to emo-pop to sass parts to metalcore breakdowns. It really goes for it, and it gets there.
It comes with a video directed by Cameron Nunez, with creative direction by SYSC singer Connie Sgarbossa, and this band’s music videos are as effective as their music. Check it out below.
The Romance of Affliction drops 11/5 via Pure Noise and features appearances by Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley, Underoath’s Aaron Gillespie, If I Die First, and Shaolin G, plus production from Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale. Pre-order our exclusive splatter vinyl variant, limited to 300.
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Also catch the band on tour with Greyhaven, Vatican, and Wristmeetrazor, including NYC’s Market Hotel on 11/21. All dates:
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25 Chaotic Hardcore, Mathcore & Sasscore Albums from the 2000s That Are Seminal Today
Black Cat #13 – I Blast Off! (2000)
The Sawtooth Grin – Cuddlemonster (2001)
Racebannon – In the Grips of the Light (2002)
The Blood Brothers – March On Electric Children (2002)
Orchid – Orchid (aka “Gatefold”) (2002)
Since By Man – We Sing the Body Electric (2003)
"We sing the body electric/Sickness says hold on/Would you like to dance, dance, dance?"
That's how Since By Man open "A Kid Who Tells on Another Kid is a Dead Kid" (probably an Over the Edge reference but not a Nation of Ulysses cover), with Sam Macon raising his voice to a harsh shriek on "dance, dance, dance" and totally embodying flamboyant hardcore in the process. That line also gives this Milwaukee band's Revelation-released debut LP its title, and -- for a subgenre that prides itself on shamelessly verbose poetry -- it makes sense that a band would name their album after a Whitman poem. Throughout We Sing the Body Electric, Since By Man deliver a shapeshifting soundscape that bounces between melodic math riffs, clean-sung hooks, and bludgeoning metalcore, sounding like a cross between The Blood Brothers, Botch, and Poison The Well (who Since By Man guitarist Brad Clifford later joined). It's often a fast, frenzied, constantly-in-motion record, but it sets itself apart from dime-a-dozen mathcore with a few atmospheric, slow-burning songs that veer closer to Jupiter-era Cave In. I don't know if this particular album is a big influence on the current punk scene or not, but it sure sounds like it could be; it combines a lot of different sounds that have been coming to prominence in recent years. Some parts of this album sound like early 2000s post-hardcore in a nutshell, but other times it feels genuinely ahead of its time.