Spring Colors Challenge - Day 3: Myrtle
Aren't We Amphibians's Emergency, Exit first caught my eye purely out of my love of the color distortions of old disposable and poloroid cameras. I just love how green it looks- like it was etched out of moss or something! I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand how any one change of hue ends up emerging as the dominate pallet of a developed photograph, but I do know that they can really add to the depth and narrative of an image. For example, the cover of Emergency, Exit feels cool and humid, like the air in early April, and I feel like I could have taken this photo on a school trip of my own to the aquarium, or some such educational environment, many moons again. Thoughts and memories sprout out of it and pollinate my consciousness. It's a perfect image for an emo album cover, and it's no surprise that the music on Emergency, Exit is similar to furtile. The group favors winding lead guitars that lend themselves to attention-arresting key changes, which grab you in a playful headlock as you're pulled into the next rollick melodic turn. Vocalist Josh has a tendency to yell the lyrics for each song at top of his lungs, which would seem to put a phenomenal strain on his throat, except by some strange feat, he only seems to get more powerful at projecting his voice over the course of each track- like an emo tornado siren heralding the next cloud burst of sparkle chords and twisty, headlong, impetuous grooves. It's almost like the entire band is working to get these songs out of them as forcefully as they can before they explode. Emergency, Exit is not just the name of the album, but a description of how these sounds move through the band and escape into the world.
