The Front Bottoms

One Liner: Emo lo-fi confessional punk

Poster Position: 11

Thoughts:  I mean, they win the band name war right here and now.  Give them the trophy and move along.  As for the actual music, its kind of lo-fi punk music that sounds very much like the emo bands of 10 years ago - I'm hearing Dashboard Confessional because of the talking/singing style of vocals. I also hear Modest Mouse sometimes.  But this exudes that slacker indie punk feel.  It also has a pretty great lyrical content, with stories and vivid descriptions galore.

They've got three full-length albums (2011's Front Bottoms, 2013's Talon of the Hawk, and 2015's Back on Top) and one EP (2014's Rose, which is apparently named after one of their grandmothers). Five of their most popular come from that new album, but their top song (by far) comes from the 2013 album.  This is "Twin Size Mattress," which checks in at 8 million streams (and was at 7.7 two weeks ago when I wrote most of this post, for what that's worth).

The most listened-to from the new album, "HELP," has a really fun, poppy sound, along with a very well-pronounced F bomb.  2.9 million streams.

That video is kind of funny and weird too.  Then, just because I love these Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR, here is one with these dudes.

Pretty good.  I kinda like it, but the more I listened to the multiple albums over the last day, the less I want to hear any more of this.  I think its the vocal tone, it has just started to grate on my nerves after a long time.  I generally like the music, especially individual singles of the music, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to see these guys.