As fourth-wave emo continues to outgrow its underground roots (just yesterday Pitchfork posted an in-depth review of the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die's Billboard-charting debut, Whenever, If Ever), now is a pretty good time to jump in and take a listen to the bands that helped bring the scene to life toward the end of the aughts. I mentioned a handful of those acts in my recent B Side feature on the sound's revival, but there are plenty I had to leave out—such as 1994!, a two-piece from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.…
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