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Barbara Martinez

waste yrself by Teen Suicide

My problem arose sometime in early June, when I remember lamenting “Help, I need more sad albums to cry to this summer already. It’s not even technically summer yet.‰” By some stroke of luck, June 21st swung into my life on the same day as I remembered Maryland four-piece Teen Suicide. “Unfiltered and raw… cuts with the emotional honesty of a personal diary backed with a flawlessly representative soundtrack,‰” says the band‰’s bio, providing for me the sort of painfully forward emotional honesty that makes a summer album so good at making you sad. Summer seems to fall into a period of reflection, where the absence of exams and essays leave for too much time to think- which almost inevitably ends in some sort of humid melancholy that sticks to your skin. In terms of lo-fi with emo/indie/punk vibes, waste yrself provides some empathetic baseline for the struggles of the aimless life of a 20-year-old.

RIYL: Julia Brown, Pill Friends, Elvis Depressedly