Emo music

Feelings hit different in the emo underground: Matt DeMello's Canaries for the Cauldron is a "truly unhinged" B-sides collection spanning doo-wop Sublime covers to banjo-laden LCD Soundsystem, leftover from his 2022 pop-crossover LP. The Darts' Topple Over Yesteryear channels pure hooligan punk fury — anarchy this, anarchy that, punk rock forever — while their All That Remains of Popularity Wars is a fractured artifact with missing tracks that may be gone forever. Memory Curse's Tug of Time offers melancholic post-rock as a different kind of breakup record, and Rose Bowl's Four of Cups meditates on what we overlook when we can't see the gifts right in front of us.