The songs bring me back to the early days of bands like Hop Along and Swearin', and it's some of the best stuff in that realm that I've heard in a while. It's their best-produced recording yet (with production by The Superweaks' Evan Bernard), and the band sound tighter and louder and hit harder than they ever have. As good as their past releases were, this bests any of them by a mile.
Even the best pop punk bands are often juvenile Action/Adventure prove that the genre's even better when you inspire a little growth.Ģ5 Calyx - Stay Gone Salinas/Chumpire/Ethospine/Plastic MiraclesĬalyx spent the past six years making a name for themselves within Pittsburgh's DIY punk scene, and this year they finally followed their two EPs and single with their first full-length, Stay Gone, and to say it was worth the wait would be an understatement. They scratch all the right itches - they're impossibly tight, every song is a pit-starter, and the hooks are sugar-sweet - and they also avoid lyrical pop punk clichés in favor of anti-racist anthems like "Barricades," which has quickly become the band's signature song. Their Pure Noise debut Pulling Focus offers up the kind of glossy yet hardcore-informed pop punk that dominated Drive-Thru Records in the early 2000s and bands like The Wonder Years and The Story So Far in the early 2010s, and Action/Adventure are one of the best new bands in that realm that I've heard in years. The current pop punk revival often centers on the Travis Barker-affiliated acts that sound like they could've dominated TRL in the Y2K era, but if you want something with a little more edge, you need Action/Adventure in your life.
Survivor's Guilt isn't just a revival of pop punk's past it feels like a glimpse into the genre's future.ģ2 Action/Adventure - Pulling Focus EP Pure Noise Kenny captures the sugary charm of Y2K-era blink-182, but he also branches out into the moody post-punk of "Silence Is Also An Answer" and the throat-shredding post-hardcore of "Inside of Heaven's Mouth, There Is A Sweet Tooth," and more than any of Travis Barker's other 2021 collabs, Survivor's Guilt lets him go as apeshit behind the kit as he did on blink's best records. Kenny already had a unique pop/electronic-friendly rock sound of his own before linking up with Travis, and you really get the sense that this album was the product of two strong minds coming together, not just Travis looking for his latest muse. Great albums, just not for this list.Ĥ5 KennyHoopla x Travis Barker - Survivor's Guilt Mogul Vision/AristaĢ021 was the year that Travis Barker took control of mainstream rock and found a ton of collaborators who were willing to join him on his quest to bring pop punk back to the charts, and one of the most interesting and unique ones was KennyHoopla.
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(We have subgenre-specific lists with more, including screamo, ska, and metalcore, plus 40 great punk EPs, splits, and singles.) Genres are hard to define, and even with the large variety of punk subgenres represented on this list, a few 2021 albums were left off that might be "adjacent" to punk/emo/etc but overall didn't fit the criteria, including the excellent new albums by Foxing, Manchester Orchestra, Laura Stevenson, Angel Du$t, and Illuminati Hotties. To wrap up this incredible year for punk, we've put together a list of the 50 best "punk" albums of the year, including hardcore, post-hardcore, emo, screamo, metalcore, ska-punk, pop punk, indie-punk, and some hard-to-define stuff in between, and even with 50 albums, we couldn't touch on all the many great punk-derived albums released in 2021. Punk and its many offshoots are very far from dead.
A few veteran bands put out career-high albums this year, but 2021 has largely been about exciting new bands.
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The mainstream pop punk revival is in full effect. The latest waves of screamo, hardcore, and metalcore have risen from the underground and produced tons of breakthrough records. The fifth wave of emo is officially here.
Time will tell how 2021 is best remembered, but it already feels like tons of exciting new trends exploded within punk this year. 2001 was the year that emo broke and in 2011, the new wave of post-hardcore made its mark. First it was hardcore '81, and then 1991: the year punk broke. Years ending in "1" have always tended to be pivotal years for punk rock.
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