I’ve been saying for a while now that a neon/ez revival is not too far off in the distance. I know it sounds crazy, what with tr00 pop-punk and 90s alternative rock-worship at an all time high, but you know what? They called Gallileo a fool too!
While I think we are still a ways out from a full-on revival or genre sea-change, I do think that we’re starting to see the early signs of it, as evidenced by these three new bands that could have easily been in one of Uppercut’s “bands who never went anywhere then broke up” posts about random ez bands from 2009. The one crucial detail here is that while they all SOUND like they’re from 2009, they don’t LOOK like it– which is my prediction for how the revival will go down. Expect bands that take their sonic cues from early FYS and ME VS HERO, but their fashion cues from H&M.
imo ALIVE IN STANDBY are the best of this crop, coming off something like FTSK meets FOUR YEAR STRONG (when they were actually good). Really top-notch stuff that could have been on some disaster of tour that played C-market VFW halls in 2009 with CITY LIGHTS and BOYS WILL BE BOYS. Bonus points for the singer’s “Flip coconut head.”
MFW there is a band in 2014 called CRUNKASAURUS REX and they are actually pretty good! Kinda reminds me of BROADWAY if they were a little less breakdown-laden. Easily the worst/best band name I have heard since CHUNK NO CAPTAIN CHUNK.
And finally we have some band called CHOKING AMBER, whose name has a weird “rapey buttrock band” vibe, but are actually a bunch of kids who are trying their best to look like TSSF and sound like a generic neon/ez band like, say, FRESHMAN 15 or something.
