Song Review: All My Friends Want To Kill Themselves, "a series of love letters addressed to rosa luxemburg"
9/16/2017
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All My Friends Want To Kill Themselves - “a series of love letters addressed to rosa luxemberg”
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All My Friends Want To Kill Themselves (AxMxFxWxTxKxTx), a band known more for starting drama with local hardcore bands and showgoers and their iconic “Brochella Fest” meme, have actually released some music. After being an on-and-off band for a couple years, they have released a single track, “a series of love letters addressed to rosa luxemberg,” and it is sinister in a very unique way, especially for a Connecticut act.
Screamo has changed, musically and ideologically, just like any subgenre through the years. Lately, we’ve seen screamo come back cleaner, with crisper production, and with a songwriting approach and delivery that mirrors the hardcore sound more and more. Bands like Touche Amore, State Faults, and Pianos Become the Teeth have developed a prettier, more melodramatic interpretation of hardcore music, and since this is the state of “screamo” now, AxMxFxWxTxKxTx and their new song are a throwback to what screamo was.
RIght from the beginning you hear the classic trebly guitar riff and snare roll combo you’d expect from a 90s screamo band. It snaps in with a bell hit, a riff, and then a slew of harsh high-pitched screams are thrown at you. It’s straight out of the old screamo playbook, something you’d hear out of a pg.99 album or France twenty years ago. As the track goes on, it expands, and you hear a bit of Canada Songs-era Daughters, and even some See You Next Tuesday. The chords are sad, and not pretty sad-- this is a dark and hopeless depression that culminates in a crushing riff, one that doesn’t make you want to cry or hide but just drive all night, chain-smoking cigarettes because there is nothing else to do.
I hope this band is actually a band at this point, because I want more of this. It is a step forward for CT sad/harsh music because, in most ways, it is a step backwards to the old and true sounds of screamo (“skramz”) that needs to be revisited. AxMxFxWxTxKxTx are back to show us how it’s done.
-Caleb P.
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- Recovery date
- 2026-07-22
- Stewardship polish
- 2026-07-22
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- restored
- Missing assets
- None recorded
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