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Again, they incorporate a number of styles into what is already a pretty distinct sound. It’s wildly inventive and unpredictable for the genre. The masterful composition of the songs are another sign that this is clearly a serious album.

Mathy fretwork is abundant and mixed with crunchy power chords, but also mixed with incredibly unpredictable song structure. Much of that genre blending comes from Heagy’s guitar playing, which is clearly influenced by classic Midwest Emo bands of the American Football ilk.

There’s some debate around what genre exactly Origami Angel is, as they have been firmly planted into the new emo scene (and are perhaps ushering it in), but definitely sound inherently much more like a pop punk band. The band is really just a duo, with Heagy taking up the vocals, guitar, and bass and Pat Doherty on drums. That feeling isn’t just conjured up from the lyrics, but also from the musicianship of the band. That is the feeling that Origami Angel have captured on GAMI GANG. Yearning for simpler, more fun times isn’t an innately immature or bad thing, it’s something that’s logical and that just about every person feels to an extent.

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I have a job that’s meaningful and I enjoy and am pretty settled into what might be a “grown-up” lifestyle that I’m happy with it, but I also miss the days in college where friends and I would drink mugs full of wine and watch The Bachelor or busting my ass to Best Buy to get Pokemon Emerald only to lose it at a Bowling Alley a few weeks later. Yes the lyrics are immature and “cringe” at times, but they’re also fun and real and honest. I simply don’t know and that is so much of the beauty of GAMI GANG. Or maybe all of these songs take place within a day of each other in singer/guitarist Ryland Heagy’s current life.

A late highlight comes in “Caught in the Moment”, where the emphasis on the chorus is on eating Taco Bell in a Lyft, showing character progression and the passing of time from “Mobius Chicken Strip”. This isn’t lyrical nostalgia of thinking about the good ole days or rebelling against growing old, it’s more missing those moments where we could just tell our best friends “ grab your Game Boy, get in the car”, a line that is italicized and in quotations because it actually appears in a real song that is actually titled “Mobius Chicken Strip”, an early highlight. Yes, there are sadboi lyrics aplenty to be found, but they’re so earnest in their immature absurdity that it draws you in. Origami Angel clearly had the time of their lives making this album. And, against all odds, it all works.Īnd again, it works because they commit to what they’re crafting.

It seems as though they came up with a list of items that would annoy every music purist and dad in New Balance sneakers and thought “How can we make an album out of this?” Even better, they made it a twenty song, double album. They even include breakdowns that verge on easycore, random trip hop beats, some screams, and even bossa nova. Immature, nostalgic lyrics, group chants, hand claps, do-do-dos, high-pitched and somewhat nasally vocals, and any other cliche you can think of. They take almost all of everyone’s least favorite aspects of pop-punk and lean into them as hard as they can. If Origami Angel had committed to their schtick just slightly less, GAMI GANG could have been a complete disaster. Review Summary: So sweet it will give you a cavity and then kick your ass at Mario Kart.