Braid Take Us Right To The Cusp Of ’90s Emo
If anyone’s still out there this late on this Friday night before a four-day holiday weekend, here’s that Braid-by-request installment in our “12 Days Of 90s Emo,” and obviously these Illinois fellows, who broke up on the eve of the decade ending (roughly right after this clip was filmed), are one of the key bands where you can now really see mod radio emo lurking under the post-hardcore skin. (More than most of his peers I can imagine Bob Nanna emo-ing up a TRL countdown.) Meanwhile, I worry that I’m being too off-the-cuff with these songs, and not sharing enough gross emo details about the various post-collegiate traumas they soundtracked, thereby reneging on the whole emo project. Maybe I’ve just suppressed them?
Braid – “The New Nathan Detroits” [YouTube]
