Makeout Party - Lengths and Limits

While it's difficult for any band to find their niche, a band with the unfortunate 'emo' stigma attached to their sound may as well call it a day and form solo projects. With the popularity explosion in the last half decade or so that has turned what once was a respected genre of music into a throwaway term to describe whatever your little sister listens to, many bands have formed simply to try ride the wave of success before it breaks, and in doing that have saturated the scene with a lot of unlistenable, disingenuous garbage that kids inexplicably fawn over.

With that said, it's refreshing when a band comes along that actually does it right. A band content to take chances in their songwriting instead of taking the easy way out and penning a dozen three-minute jangly pop tunes. Today that band is Makeout Party, and their full-length Lengths and Limits is a pleasantly diverse collection that conjures up memories of years gone by, when emo was legitimately emotional.

More words and streaming music after the jump.