Emo music

Feeling every frequency of the emotional spectrum: Matt DeMello's Canaries for the Cauldron is a "truly unhinged" B-sides collection spanning doo-wop Sublime covers to banjo-laden LCD Soundsystem — utterly unpredictable and essential. Tabsplitter's End of the Line delivers energetic yet melancholic songwriting drawn from visceral firsthand encounters at the train platform. The Darts' Topple Over Yesteryear channels hooligan fury with proud punk-rock anarchy, while All That Remains of Popularity Wars carries the mystique of missing tracks and lost CDs. Andrew Marshall's Waited Forever vents and perseveres, driven by one broke guy's unshakeable passion for making the best songs he can.