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Loma Prieta is a bay area hardcore band who, to our benefit, seem to have anger management issues. They’re grindy, They’re screamy, and throw down lots of nice low-end interludes. This new track remind me a lot of Nails, whose Unsilent Death record has been on heavy rotation on my iPod and in my nightmares.
Loma Prieta – “Trilogy 4 – Momentary”
Loma Prieta is set to release “I.V” (Not sure if this is the number four or an acronym for intravenous, but I like the mystery) on Deathwish Records January 17th.
Sidenote –
Yes, most of their older stuff can be described as “screamo,” which I think deserves a little explanation.
A brief history of the bastardization of the term after the jump.
Loma Prieta is screamo in the vein of 90s bands like Swing Kids, Mohinder, and
Notice how the band "Squirrel Bait" had both hoodies and sweaters? That's emocore!
Portraits of Past. These were bands influenced by 80s D.C. post-hardcore bands like Rites of Spring, Grey Matter, and Embrace – bands that were initially described as emocore (portmanteau for emotional hardcore), and later simply emo. These bands were still pretty heavy for their time, but graduated from the three-chord hardcore of the early 80s.
Embrace’s Ian MacKaye dropping science on skate magazines that call his music “emocore” in 1986.
In the mid-nineties bands like Jawbreaker , Sunny Day Real Estate, and Mineral got the emo stamp from the
The name of your 'zine is "Stranded in Suburbia?" No thanks, I spent all my cash on this burlap patch.
backpack squad. There was definitely no “-core” there, but the bands still wrote songs with thoughtful lyrics that were just out-of-reach for commercial radio.
In the early-to-mid 2000s, any remnant of “core” was scrubbed from emo and it was just a label slapped on any pop band (not even pop punk) that sang about how sad they were about girls. I was apparently asleep when this happened because one day I was at a hardcore show at my college and everyone was
The chubby guy kinda looks like he could be in NoFx, but that's the closest you're getting to being a punk band.
talking about these “emo” bands they loved like Midtown, Saves the Day, and New Found Glory. Every kid in my dorm made me offers for my out-of-print Jawbreaker CDs to impress their new girlfriends who had bangs and barrettes. I refused to sell at any price on principle.
Eventually, some genius added screeching to the mix. So the “screamo” that many of the younger generation came to know is some of the worst music ever created. It’s a copy-of-a-copy-
Can we just have New Found Glory back? I swear I won't make fun of them anymore.
of-a-copy-of-a-copy. It’s just really bad music about being sad where the singer alternates between whining and wailing. Thrice? The Used? My Chemical Romance? Crap. Crap. Total crap.
Loma Prieta has nothing to do with these bands and I just wanted to make that clear.
I guess I was asleep too, or went out for a walk, or something… because I also was pretty dumbfounded by the sudden change.
It was like, one day the music world was Pinkerton and it seemed to hold lots of promise, and then you blinked for a second, and the scenery had abruptly shifted and now it was The Green Album and wtf happened?
Actually, I think this is a place where one could accurately use the phrase “paradigm shift”
dude, go listen to thrice and realize they got nothing to do with this… Thrice is not or ever was screamo or wrote about “being sad”. hahaha fail
Wow, Thrice has absolutely nothing to do with The Used or My Chemical Romance… You deserve to be compared to shitty bands when you do the exact same thing to others.
Oh, and I really like your new album. I bought it.
*I mean the Loma Prieta album. The link that I clicked stated that a member of the band wrote this.