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With minimal balance or composure, he ambled through the setlist with a hard kind of exhaustion, a tethered withholding.

It was the look of a man trying very hard to give to give a fuck, just for one more night, for the kids. Simmons had arrived that night as a picture-perfect portrait of the post-Hot Topic decade: the stripped shirt and jeans, the hoodie that did double-duty as a cardigan. It was a tour about incarcerating the band’s perfect recordings of pummeled angst into the deep freeze of memory, untainted. In this light, the B&C’s anniversary tour felt like a breakup on the band’s own terms, sans scrutinize-able facebook statements or strange acrimony. Elsewhere, Lil Peep, a rapper who became one of the next new things for his melding of emo angst and aesthetics with rap flow, had died suddenly of a fentanyl overdose. Few were sticking around the closer the scene came to bursting through the floorboards: fellow Philadelphia fourth-wavers like Modern Baseball and JANK had dissolved in mists of anguished mental health and old school icons Brand New, who had returned to the spotlight to release their most successful record yet, went back into hiatus after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against frontman Jesse Lacey.

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He has reason to feel emotional: the tour is suspected to be the band’s last, as Simmons told a podcast last month that the shows would be his band’s “ last full U.S.” The news was hardly a rumor either: behind me a chorus of long hair and sweatshirts opined on it between songs, peppering the night air with solitary, divorce children cries of “Don’t break up,” “Stay together.”Ģ017 wasn’t the best year for emotional rock and the impending breakup of a band that only a year ago was on the verge of mass communication was cruelly par for course.

Another powerful, emotive release, the members of Balance and Composure, Jon Simmons (vocals, guitar), Erik Petersen (guitar), Andy Playmaker (guitar, backing vocals), Matt Warner (bass) and Bailey Van Ellis (drums), have found legions of fans across the US.“I’m emotional, I feel crazy” Jon Simmons of Philadelphia’s Balance and Composure uttered in the middle of his set as his band’s 10 th anniversary tour hit Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom this weekend. The album peaked at number 51 on the US Billboard 200, as well as breaking into the Top 20 of the Independent Albums Chart, the Modern Rock/Alternative Albums and Rock Albums Chart. They returned to the studio in 2013 to record their second album, “The Things We Think We’re Missing,” which went on to be a huge success. The tour was hugely successful, selling out venues in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. In 2013, they embarked on their first US headlining tour, brining along The Jealous Sound for support. The album was full of anthemic, melodic guitar work alongside hard-hitting lyricism, making them an exciting prospect in the underground music scene.Įxtensive touring followed the release of their debut, playing alongside the likes of Circa Survive, La Dispute, Title Fight and Touché Amore. After several years establishing their sound, their debut album, “Separation,” arrived in 2011, finding critical acclaim. Balance and Composure came together in 2007, formed out of the remnants of two local bands during their high school years.

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