Cross My Heart - Temporary Contemporary

2000 | Deep Elm Records

Another early 2000s emo band, Cross my Heart plays a similar brand of emo to Benton Falls with a stronger vocalist and less intricate, but still jangly riffs. This was a band I always looked forward to on those Deep Elm Records Compilations, the Emo Diaries. Actually I totally forgot about them until yesterday when I was going through old empty cd jewel cases.. I wish I had lost the cases and not the discs. But I suppose those discs are scratched to shit now anyway. I'm sure you'll hear more bands from those comp's from me eventually..

Tracklist

1 The Great Depression

2 Tonight We'll Light Ourselves on Fire

3 Paris

4 London Bridge

5 With Bells On

6 Infinity Doesn't Live Here Anymore

7 Self-loathing Bastard

8 Angels & Gargoyles

9 How Slowly We Forget

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Benton Falls - Fighting Starlight

August 2001 | Deep Elm Records

This is a good album for my first post.

Benton Falls, from Santa Rosa, CA played a beautiful popular midwestern-sounding emo in the early 2000s. This is my favorite album of theirs, though the edgier Guilt Beats Hate is a close second. I went through alot with this album growing up, and I hope I never forget about it. Guess that's why it's here...

The song Back to Nothing begins with, "i follow you around / like i follow the sea / but i see you're not / interested in me..." which i think rounds out the entire album pretty well-- struggling with the idea of isolation or abandonment. But there's something hopeful left behind in all the whining.

Tracklist

1 All These Things

2 Swimming With You

3 Fighting Starlight

4 Sad Like Winter Leaves

5 Always Behind A Smile

6 June Port Bridge

7 No Hero

8 Coastal

9 Back To Nothing

10 Eudora

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