Jingwei - Jingwei

C+ Tier

Jingwei is a brand new Midwest Screamo project from Nick Strutsman, a controversial figure in Emo that played in Merchant Ships and Park Jefferson. While the songwriting is excellent and the guitarwork on here is as superb as you'd expect, there are only six songs on here totaling six minutes of runtime. Unlike a select few Emoviolence releases with similar runtimes, musical ideas are on here are not recorded at breakneck speeds. While this is a promising debut for the Emo virtuoso, there needs to be a bit more substance before I can rate this any higher.

onewaymirror - Everything Wants Me To Write In Cursive

C- Tier

Prolific LA Skramz act onewaymirror have released several albums, EPs and splits before this record, changing up their sound somewhat every so often. However, this transformation into a more generic Metalcore band with heavy Emoviolence influence tends to miss the mark. Much of the band’s personality and identity seems to have vanished on this EP, even if the music still kicks ass.