Connecticut’s Sentiments are an emo-tinged post-rock/slowcore band, harkening back to a time when bands like The Appleseed Cast and Planes Mistaken for Stars dotted the emo landscape. Today, we’re spotlighting their new album called If this is what you want, which was released on July 25 on We’re Trying Records. Recorded at Silver Bullet Studios with Greg Thomas (End, Misery Signals) and mixed by Greg and Chris Teti (The World is…), the album manages to merge a poignant emo viewpoint with grandiose post-rock elements.
“The album was pieced together and written around the idea of saying to yourself ‘if this is what you want’ or ‘this is what you wanted’ as you move through stages of life,” explain the band about the album. “It spans the tumultuous times in relationships to the arbitrary things that are kept when someone passes and asking what will be kept from you when you’re gone. The process behind the album is that most songs start from a seed of an acoustic song or simple line that repeats and it’s then given the full band treatment and worked and reworked until it’s at a place where not only are we happy but that it feels like a sincere piece of us. We try to write the music that we want to hear and in the process we tend to kill our darlings to keep it honest. We want our audience to say ‘if this is what you want, recoil when it’s not enough’ along with us and feel every word.”
Check out the album below.
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