No Coast
Top Shelf
2014
Rating: 6.5 strips of sealant out of 10
After roughly sixteen years, Braid decided to put out a new record. It sounds pretty much like an old Braid record, as if they had never aged or dug "No Coast" up from a time capsule - it is maybe a little more polished than their older albums, but the guts are the same. I absolutely loved (and still love) me some old Braid records, the problem is I'm not the same person I was nearly twenty years ago, and these new songs hold no nostalgia for me the way that "Frame & Canvas" or "The Age of Octeen" do. This isn't the fault of Braid or my listening tastes or anything really, we've just grown apart. They still do the punkier side of emo better than anyone probably, and if they play some shows locally I still might go see them just for the chance to sign along to "A Dozen Roses" and feel like I'm 22 again.
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