The Beatniks Couldn’t Save the World by i.o

For fans of Hella, Don Caballero, Still House Plants, first wave emo, and those final days of naive freedom from late adolescence, The Beatniks Couldn’t Save the World by i.o focuses our view of nostalgia into only those most impactful and useful moments for our future development. This drum-lead composition allows two slowcore guitar tracks to trail in the background as explosive rhythms light up the sky, allowing frantically kinetic climaxes to lead us through an emotional story being simultaneously told in dramatic spoken word. These lyrics encourage only the most productive and impactful applications of nostalgia, using the last instants of carefree and self-destructive childhood as a means to understand our underlying desires. Looking back on those moments of the uninhibited expression of desire inspires the sort of choked rush of emotion we find on these hyperactive drums, expressing a deep frustration which for better or worse constitutes a key hallmark of maturity.