( n e v e r d r o w n )

(about the band)

    (neverdrown) was formed on the california state long beach campus and currently consists of three members.  a guitarist, drummer, and vocalist.  the vocalist plays bass at the moment, but the band is looking for a bassist and second guitarist.

    the style in which (neverdrown) would be categorized is hard to explain.  this excerpt was taken from another site which describes very well what (neverdrown) hopes to accomplish.

"post-emo indie rock"

-Anyone that claims to like both straight-edge and emo is probably talking about this kind of emo. Starts out near Colorado and Seattle, explodes all over the Midwest, then onward to New York, etc.

-Musically, tends toward a lot of loud/soft integration, but a lot of softly-sung vocals and very little screaming or harshness. Lots of catchy, poppy guitar riffs, happiness or at least melancholy, and a particular fascination with off-key, cutesy boy vocals. This is where the phrase "twinkly guitar parts" comes from - lots of pretty major-key arpeggios, light drumming, and some amount of crooning. It sounds like a recipe for cheese, and sometimes is.

-There is a valid element of emo in the vocals here (along with occasional octave chord). It's not as easy to identify as the mournful screaming in the original emo style, tending to consist more of greatly drawn-out phrases detailing very emotional lyrics with ironically light and poppy singing.

-Sunny Day Real Estate came up with a very original post-hardcore meets emocore at an indie rock show sound. This inspired a spawn of imitators even more shameless than the Fugazi and Quicksand clones. Which leads one to observe: post-hardcore emerged when the hardcore scene tired of the same seven-year-old sounds inspired by a few innovative hardcore bands. A few innovative post-hardcore bands come out with a totally new sound out of nowhere (Fugazi, Quicksand, SDRE, Drive Like Jehu), and spawn legions of imitators. Besides lending support to Thomas Kuhn's theories, it leads one to wonder what will happen seven years after the post-hardcore explosion (2000?).

(credit for the preceding description goes to Andy Radin and his web site.  here is his email address and website.)