Weekly Album: Week of 07/23 - 07/29 - some Saturday this has been

This week I listened to some Saturday this has been by ribbon fix. I saw this band on a list of good female-fronted emo bands, so I decided to give them a listen. This album fits squarely in the sound many Emo bands around this time were making, showing a lot more indie influence and dialing back the punk energy a bit musically in comparison to bands from earlier in the decade. This album certainly has a bit more angst than a lot of the Emo I tend to listen to, which is not a bad thing but rather a welcomed addition. This is aided by the downtempo nature of the entire album, which just gives the whole album a sort of, "I'm laying in bed thinking about everything" type of feel. A large part of the sound of the album is also contrasting dynamics, where parts will be very gentle and clean, and then other parts will have the distorted guitar come in and the vocalists will be screaming. Speaking of the vocals, that is one of my issues with the album. The female vocalist does a fantastic job, and so does the male vocalist but only when he is screaming. When he is just singing normally his voice has that "bad Emo vocalist" type voice that has kind of come to stereotype 90s Emo. I suppose it had to come from somewhere after all. It isn't a huge issue, but enough that during the first couple songs it would garner a negative reaction out of me. But besides that, I would say this is an enjoyable 90s Emo album, and I'm interested to hear the band's other albums along with Andi Camp's (who was the female vocalist and bassist of the band) other albums. 8/10