I Love You Both, I Love You Both!

Stratageme “Scripts” – Stratageme’s 18 year old mastermind David Vine has a natural gift for blending the dynamics of emocore and laptop electronica, crafting tracks that push and pull between post-grunge guitar tones and shimmering keyboard textures while making the transitions seem organic and logical in a way very few of his peers can manage. Like the best of the band’s material, “Scripts” never stops moving, shifting from section to section like a film cutting from scene to scene, occasionally allowing for pensive pauses before dramatically zooming ahead for intense Sunny Day Real Estate-esque guitar riffs. (Click here for the official Stratageme site.)

Kill Me Tomorrow and Dance Disaster Movement “Beautiful Guns” – This track is relentlessly tense and nervey, like having a splitting headache and a cramped stomach at once. It’s a creepy, uncomfortable song, but it’s very successful at evoking an unwell state. I realize that I’m not making this sound like a very good time, but obviously, not all art is meant to be fun. (Click here to buy it from Tone Vendor.)