Vancouver screamo band Emma Goldman’s debut LP approaches (hear a new track)

Emma Goldman is a screamo band from Vancouver (named after the influential anarchist) who formed a few years ago with members of Dad Thighs, and they’re now set to follow a series of EPs, splits, and demos with their first full-length album, All You Are Is We, on April 28 via Zegema Beach Records. Having recently released “I Don’t Think Much At All” and “This Is Your Brain On Minimum Wage,” we’re now premiering the third and final single, “I Seem To Be An Adjective.” It’s a harsh, explosive screamo song, and as you’d probably expect from a band named after a famous anarchist, it comes with a powerful message. The band says:

The song explores how cultural enforcement influences self-image by using examples of how the media landscape around drug addiction creates internalized stigma for drug users. The lyrics themselves are all lifted from language found in news articles about the drug toxicity crisis in the band’s home city of Vancouver. While one of the vocal lines assumes the voice of someone facing the most immediate risks of this crisis, the other takes the voice of the bureaucracy that not only prevents any real solutions—like safe supply—from being implemented but also reduces the victims of this crisis to statistics and data points. Whether it be by dramatizing the flipping through articles that systematically dehumanizes drug users or rehashing the internal monologues that pop up when working minimum wage jobs, we explore our own political problems on this upcoming album from the visceral place where we are most directly experienced: our mundane, everyday routines.

Listen below. The band play a house show on April 5 in Victoria; a Vancouver show on April 11 with Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Lord Wrought, and Filigree Silver God; and Zegema Beach Records’ ZBR Fest in Chicago from May 3-4 with Vs Self, State Faults, Salvinorin-A, Drive Your Plow, Massa Nera, Febuary, Respire, The Caution Children, and more.

I don’t think much at all by Emma Goldman

this is your brain on minimum wage by Emma Goldman