Alkaline Trio cultivated a tight-knit cult-ish following with their emotionally apathetic lyrics, ironic themes, emotional, sludge-like punk rock sound and overall dark tones.
In her seventh studio album, “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We," Mitski encourages the listener to reckon with worlds above, around, and within them as she explores themes of love, pain, and the complexities of the human experience.
The band not only capitalizes on progress, but ropes listeners into a philosophy that proves fruitful not just in their art, but as a means to ignite a fire of hope in themselves to do the same.
It may be bad, but it still gained notoriety and was an honest attempt for the band to springboard into their sophomore effort with a more finely tuned approach, but that’s for another day.
The EP established All Time Low as a new band of the time, making the correct ripples in the pond of a career that echoed very far into the band’s career.