I suppose one or two of you might look at that bandname and think: Geez, someone help these emo kids. Spot on! And still totally wrong. In fact, indie rock (in its oldfashioned sense) has probably never sounded more vital than this in 2015. Take the musical complexity and political stance of the original emo/post-hardcore movement, the emotional crafts of OC indie and some leftovers of Conor Oberst Omaha scene and you’ll get a condensed version of The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die
With their second album after 2013’s Whenever, If Ever the Connecticut-based collective celebrates something they refer to as a maximalist idealism: ‘to exist in harmlessness, doing no harm to those around you.’That says it all. They’re bold but tongue-in-cheek, they have a refreshingly direct and easy ethos and musically they carry it out in a complex, incredibly catchy way. In all the latest emo and post-emo efforts, this band stands out.
The Fat Angel Sings 