Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have A Thought

Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have A ThoughtTrying Not to Have a Thought isnt just the first Algernon Cadwallader album since 2011s Parrot Flies. Its also the first with their original lineupvocalist bassist Peter Helmis, guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony, and drummer Nick Tazzasince Algernons seminal 2008 debut, Some Kind of Cadwallader. Shortly after that album was recordedand long before it was heralded as a lodestar for the 2010s emo revivalTazza and Mahony departed the band. Despite

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Audiotree Live and some of the biggest Mexican music festivals known to man

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and Adam Vass on bass-dealt with the stagnance of the pandemic

This anguish hangs heavy over the rest of the tracks as well

yet the process proved to be startlingly cathartic

As a Black man

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I wanted to juxtapose vague sad boy rock with themes that are actually worth being sad about

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