gists/emooo.md

“genre(s)” implicitly includes “emo” or whatever.

This list is intentionally designed to (mostly) avoid screamo. As a result, a lot (most?) of this stuff ultimately stems from the “midwest emo” strain of post-hardcore.

Entries are listed in roughly descending order of importance.

Slint and Indian Summer are just on here because they are responsible for basically all emo music from the 1990s onward.

artist	album	genre(s)	minor genre(s)
Slint	Spiderland	math rock, post-rock, post-hardcore
Cap’n Jazz	Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We’ve Slipped On and Egg Shells We’ve Tippy Toed Over	midwest emo, math rock	post-hardcore
The Dismemberment Plan	Emergency & I	post-punk, post-hardcore, math rock
Pretend	Bones In The Soil, Rust In The Oil	math rock, post-rock	midwest emo
Pretend	Tapestry’d Life	math rock, post-rock	midwest emo, math pop
Pretend	Circular Ræsoning	math rock, post-rock	midwest emo
The Brave Little Abacus	just got back from the discomfort—we’re alright	midwest emo, math pop, math rock	baroque pop
The Newfound Interest In Connecticut	Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home	post-rock, midwest emo
American Football	American Football [1999]	math rock, midwest emo	post-rock
tubelord	Our First American Friends	math pop, math rock	post-hardcore, post-punk
tubelord	r o m a n c e	math pop, indietronica, post-punk	math rock
TTNG [f.k.a. This Town Needs Guns]	Animals	math pop, math rock	midwest emo, post-rock
TTNG [f.k.a. This Town Needs Guns]	This Town Needs Guns	math pop, math rock	midwest emo, post-rock
TTNG [f.k.a. This Town Needs Guns]	Disappointment Island	math pop, math rock	midwest emo, post-rock
Monster Machismo	Aye Aye Porcupine	math rock, post-hardcore
Rooftops	A Forest of Polarity	post-rock, math rock	midwest emo
Dilute	Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape	post-rock, math rock	midwest emo, math pop
Colour	Anthology	math pop, math rock	midwest emo
Colossal	Welcome The Problems	math rock, midwest emo
Kidcrash	Snacks	post-hardcore, math rock	screamo
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die	Whenever, If Ever	midwest emo, post-rock	pop-punk
Six Gallery	Breakthroughs In Modern Art	math pop, math rock	post-rock, post-hardcore
Damiera	M(US)IC	math rock, math pop	pop-punk, post-hardcore
Girlfriends	Girlfriends	math pop, math rock, midwest emo, post-hardcore
Best Witches	Wishes	midwest emo, post-hardcore	math rock
Feed Me Jack	Anatolia	math pop	math rock, indie rock
C-Clamp	Longer Waves	slowcore	math rock
Owls	Owls	midwest emo, math rock
June of 44	Four Great Points	post-rock, post-hardcore, math rock	slowcore
glass beach	the first glass beach album	indie rock, power pop, pop-punk, post-punk	midwest emo, indietronica
Fish Tank	Henry	math pop	math rock, post-hardcore
NGOD	XL	math pop, math rock	post-hardcore, indie rock
Tabar	Hugs	math pop	midwest emo, math rock, indie rock
Vasco Da Gama	Geography	math rock, post-hardcore	math pop
Tangled Hair	We Do What We Can	math pop, math rock	midwest emo
Love Among The Mannequins	My Uncle's Ball of Lightning Will Put an End to Your Warped Psychology	math pop, post-hardcore
The Speed of Sound in Seawater	Red Version	math pop, math rock	midwest emo, post-hardcore
Lions	MTNZ	math pop	midwest emo, math rock
Leer	Spring Break No Parents	midwest screamo	math rock, midwest emo
Algernon Cadwallader	Some Kind Of Cadwallader	midwest emo	math rock
Crash Of Rhinos	Distal	midwest emo, post-hardcore	math rock
CSTVT [f.k.a. Castevet]	Summer Fences	midwest emo, post-rock	midwest screamo
Diving	Places And The Objects You Find There	midwest emo, math rock
The Reptilian	Full Health	midwest screamo	math rock
Indian Summer	Indian Summer	post-hardcore, emocore	post-rock, screamo