Thank You, New Jersey is far and away the clearest, with its surf-rock guitars and full-blown Beach Boys vocal runs hopped up by Origami Angel’s naturally caffeinated state. It’s the initial hint of summer air that The Brightest Days seems very informed by, not only in its invocation of Warped Tours of yore, but in the stylistic shifts it undergoes on top of that. Their most prevalent new trick is the addition of ukulele, feeling rather limited in the interlude Looking Out, but placing some nice, gentle melancholy to the project’s bookends on its title track and Few And Far Between. (It’s also self-classified as a mixtape, but for the sake of ease, it’s effectively still an album.) Moreover, the re-energised feeling that brings is palpable, between the evergreen thrust of 2000s emo-pop and the scrabbling excitability of Origami Angel themselves. At only eight tracks and a crisp 22 minutes, it’s far punchier and more tightly put together. So let it be known right away that The Brightest Days rights pretty much every wrong of its predecessor. Honestly, their EPs and prior full-length Somewhere City have done more not only have they aged more favourably, but they’re better representations of where Origami Angel’s fun and freneticism lands. As a band in the throes of DIY pop-punk and pop-rock and emo, a big, 20-track release was certainly a bar to clear, though one that had barely any residual impact long-term, outside the fact that they actually did it. GAMI GANG was a defining point for Origami Angel, but also a vast overextension.
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