[DID NOT ATTEND: May 10, 2024] Sweet Pill / Equipment / Broke Body / Have a Good Season
Sweet Pill opened for Pool Kids last year. But I arrived too late and missed them.
The other bands raved about them so I was interested in checking them out. I was really surprised that they had a headline spot at Union Transfer. And they sold it out! Very impressive.
I decided I didn’t care enough to go to a four-band show if I didn’t even know the headliners.
Philadelphia’s Sweet Pill writes eruptive emo songs that embrace the edges of pop and hardcore. The kind of band whose members are fully immersed in their local scene—through a handful of notable side projects (twentythreenineteen / Goings / Harm Assist / typopro) and the show-promoting Philly staple 4333 Collective—the quintet’s sound takes wide-spectrum influence from its environment. The result is an amalgam of complex song structures and flourishes of technical acumen, wholly unconcerned with genre, yet evoking the specific styles of touchstones such as Paramore and Circa Survive.
I personally hear a huge amount of Pool Kids in their music, without the wild guitar pyro that Pool Kids use. (more…)
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