Combat deliver an ambitious emo concept album, ‘Stay Golden’ (read a track-by-track breakdown)

“Don’t wanna do this Combat shit anymore, but people seemed to like this last record,” Holden Wolf spits on the second song of Combat’s second album, Stay Golden, and later, in the midst of an eight-minute, multi-part suite called “Weird Ending Explained, Pt. 1,” he adds, “Think I’ll write another record, reference all my past endeavors. I’ve got sharper claws and leitmotifs.” On top of being meta and self-referential, it’s also a pretty wild thing to hear on what’s poised to be a young band’s breakthrough album. The “last record” in question is the Baltimore band’s 2022 debut LP Text Me When You Get Back, a scrappy emo/indie/punk album recorded in one day with engineer Don Zientara at his legendary Inner E...

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“Don’t wanna do this Combat shit anymore, but people seemed to like this last record,” Holden Wolf spits on the second song of Combat’s second album, Stay Golden, and later, in the midst of an eight-minute, multi-part suite called “Weird Ending Explained, Pt. 1,” he adds, “Think I’ll write another record, reference all my past endeavors. I’ve got sharper claws and leitmotifs.” On top of being meta and self-referential, it’s also a pretty wild thing to hear on what’s poised to be a young band’s breakthrough album. The “last record” in question is the Baltimore band’s 2022 debut LP Text Me When You Get Back, a scrappy emo/indie/punk album recorded in one day with engineer Don Zientara at his legendary Inner E...

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