It’s been a good year for finally getting long-awaited new music from the newer generation of emo bands. The new awakebutstillinbed album arrives next week, and now it appears that the second glass beach album (and first in five years) is upon us. The album (their first since 2019) still isn’t announced, but new single “the CIA” is here, and this song alone feels like a triumphant return. “the CIA” is a towering song that makes me wonder if it was wrong to open this post by calling glass beach an “emo band.” It starts out as a shapeshifting art pop journey that really leans into the zany, explorative side of the first glass beach album, before culminating in something loud, heavy, and abrasive. It’s a remarkable song, and you can listen...
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