All My Friends Want To Kill Themselves - “a series of love letters addressed to rosa luxemberg” Listen to/download the song here All My Friends Want To Kill Themselves (AxMxFxWxTxKxTx), a band known more for starting drama with local hardcore bands and showgoers and their iconic “Brochella Fest” meme, have actually released some music. After being an on-and-off band for a couple years, they have released a single track, “a series of love letters addressed to rosa luxemberg,” and it is sinister in a very unique way, especially for a Connecticut act. Screamo has changed, musically and ideologically, just like any subgenre through the years. Lately, we’ve seen screamo come back cleaner, with crisper production, and with a songwriting approach and delivery that mirrors the hardcore sound more and more. Bands like Touche Amore, State Faults, and Pianos Become the Teeth have developed a prettier, more melodramatic interpretation of hardcore music, and since this is the state of “screamo” now, AxMxFxWxTxKxTx and their new song are a throwback to what screamo was. RIght from the beginning you hear the classic trebly guitar riff and snare roll combo you’d expect from a 90s screamo band. It snaps in with a bell hit, a riff, and then a slew of harsh high-pitched screams are thrown at you. It’s straight out of the old screamo playbook, something you’d hear out of a pg.99 album or France twenty years ago. As the track goes on, it expands, and you hear a bit of Canada Songs-era Daughters, and even some See You Next Tuesday. The chords are sad, and not pretty sad-- this is a dark and hopeless depression that culminates in a crushing riff, one that doesn’t make you want to cry or hide but just drive all night, chain-smoking cigarettes because there is nothing else to do. I hope this band is actually a band at this point, because I want more of this. It is a step forward for CT sad/harsh music because, in most ways, it is a step backwards to the old and true sounds of screamo (“skramz”) that needs to be revisited. AxMxFxWxTxKxTx are back to show us how it’s done. -Caleb P.
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Bryant
9/18/2017 08:58:51 pm
Are you an idiot? In no way does this absolute fucking trash compare to bands like Daughters or See You Next Tuesday. This band will never be anything. It's just a bunch of little children trying to play riffs that go over their heads with someone trying to mimic number 12 vocals(trying is the key word)
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I agree with bryant
9/19/2017 02:53:30 am
This sounds like fucking ass, nonetheless the kids in it are all fucking scum. No one around CT can tolerate these abusive, destructive children who don't, unfortunately, have any common sense. This "demo" has no originality. I'm almost convinced these kids don't have any sense in how to write a song or how song structure works. Its garbage. Bottom line.
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soyboy
12/14/2017 12:27:45 am
lol these bernie bros seem mad hurt, hey foxtails people whats up. i see yall hating
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