Midwest emo
| Midwest emo | |
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| Other names | Midwestern emo |
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| Cultural origins | 1990s, Midwestern United States |
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Midwest emo (also known as Midwestern emo) is a subgenre of emo that originated in the 1990s from the Midwestern United States. The genre is characterized by its unconventional vocals stylings, distinct guitar riffs and arpeggiated melodies. According to the author and critic Andy Greenwald, "this was the period when emo earned many, if not all, of the stereotypes that have lasted to this day: boy-driven, glasses-wearing, overly sensitive, overly brainy, chiming-guitar-driven college music."
According The Chicago Reader critic Leor Galil, the second-wave bands of the Midwest emo scene "tranformed the angular fury of D.C. emo into something malleable, melodic, and cathartic—its common features included cycling guitar parts, chugging bass lines, and unconventional singing that sounded like a sweet neighbor kid with no vocal training but plenty of heart." Incorporating elements from indie rock, the genre also features "gloomy chord progressions" and arpeggiated guitar melodies.
The Midwest emo scene came intro prominence in the late-1990s with the bands such as Chamberlain,American Football, who incorporated math rock into their sound,The Promise Ring and Sunny Day Real Estate. Other acts to embrace the genre at its prime time included Grown Ups, Cap'n Jazz,Cursive,Mineral and The Get Up Kids.Braid has been regarded as an important act to propel the Midwest emo sound across the United States. Some of the acts to practice the sound were originally not from the Midwestern United States as well, with Sunny Day Real Estate being from Washington and Mineral being from Texas.
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