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Juan Diego Bustillos of Mil Ataris por Segundo and unidentified cat

Sometimes the best thing to do is scream

by Leor Galil April 4, 2022April 1, 2022

The pandemic has constricted all our worlds—especially in its early months, I rarely went past my apartment’s front door. It’s been enough to make me want to scream, and Chicago multi-instrumentalist Juan Diego Bustillos reached that point at the end of 2021. “I’d been having a really shitty year,” he says. “In January, a really […]

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Your Arms Are My Cocoon pulls off a strange combination of bedroom pop and screamo

by Leor Galil November 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Before Tyler Odom moved to Chicago this year, he had the wild idea to take bedroom pop’s fragile instrumentation and whispered vocals and mash them together with screamo’s bleating hollers and grenades of frisson. On his recent self-titled solo debut as Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Odom fuses those incongruous styles with pluck, charm, and […]

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Connecticut screamo enigmas Jeromes Dream reunite after 17 years for an expansive new album

by Leor Galil July 25, 2019August 18, 2021

Of all the east-coast bands that helped sharpen screamo into a definitive style in the late 90s, Connecticut three-piece Jeromes Dream have the most compelling mystique—especially for fans who never saw the band before they called it quits in 2001. During their four years together, Jeromes Dream dropped five split EPs and two brief, fiery […]