Celebration Guns Reveal “Midlife Vices” On New EP

Celebration Guns are preoccupied with time. It’s clear in the titles of their last two releases, 2020’s On Aging Gracelessly and 2021’s The Visiting Years, and in their song titles such as Something About Hindsight In 2020, Old Man Yells at Cloud, Better Days and The Me That Used To Be. The idea of a focus on time, the passing and wasting of it, isn’t anything new for an emo band. But the members of Celebration Guns aren’t teenagers pining for the good times with their ex, they’re all in their 30s, and they’ve been doing this for over a decade. So when the words, “Can I repent for wasted years?” are choked out over a sparkling math riff, you know they mean it. There are any number of bands out there who want to be the nex...

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