Movements

One Liner:  Strained yelping on the otherwise rocking emo tunes isn't it for me

Wikipedia Genre:  emo, post-hardcore, indie rock, alternative rock, spoken word (?!?)

Home: Rancho Santa Margarita, California

Poster Position: 10
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 2:10.

Honda Stage.

Thoughts:  Generic ass name.  Two other bands have been called Movement in the past, and a bunch of albums and songs have been called the same.  But this is a emo/ post-hardcore band from California that veers too often into a screamo mode.  They formed back in 2015, although their founding guitarist left the band in 2016 before their debut.  Not a lot of biography in their Wikipedia entry, more about when music was made and released.

Three albums - 2017's Feel Something, 2020's No Good Left to Give, and 2023's Ruckus!  That newer album is definitely the loser as far as stream count goes - it looks like the emo revival may have been done by 2023.  Their tops songs by a long way were on that first disc.  "Daylily" has 63.6 million streams.

With bands like this, and definitely with this band, I generally like the actual underlying music, but I just really do not like the vocals.  The start of the song is great, but then they start the Dashboard Confessional strained-voice-yelling in the chorus and I'm immediately turned off.  But the tune itself is nice.  That album also has hits in "Full Circle" and "Colorblind" and "Third Degree," all of which top their streaming numbers.  Just so you can hear their more recent sound, here is "Lead Pipe" from the newest disc - 5.3 million streams.

I would have believed that this was a Fall Out Boy with the start of that tune.  Literally sounded just like them until he started the strained yelling and breathy bits.  But the discordant guitar rock and thumping bass is fun times.

Because they are relatively high on the poster, it makes me think that they were an emo darling back in the day.  Not my music style, so I don't know.  I will pass on seeing this one happen live.