Soak is the first album from Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly, released August 14, 2020.
Hello, goodbye / I failed, you tried / Dying inside / But I won't listen to it
It falls squarely into the "Emo Revival" part of Emo Music, but has influences from many other genres like math rock and noise rock.
Tracklist:
- 64 (1:20)
- My Friends Are My Power (Spoiler Alert!) (1:38)
- Middle Of Night Middle Of Night (1:58)
- 4th Gen (3:01)
- Teens//Candle (3:42)
- Ginger Ailment (3:55)
- I Hate That Place, Dude (1:22)
- Dr. Robot (2:02)
- Stay Hydrated, Fuck Em (3:03)
- Lad Buck Called, Said He's Got Some Bad News (2:23)
- Tea And Crumpets (3:08)
Soak contains examples of:
- Album Intro Track: "64" is (just barely) the shortest track on the album and introduces the album with some riffs and samples of Super Mario 64.
- Emo Music: Falls into "Emo Revival". Musically, it uses distorted guitars playing either Math Rock-tinged riffs or power chords and the lyrics are emotional, blunt, and often yelled.
- Last Note Nightmare: Ginger Ailment starts out as a surprisingly calm song right after Teens//Candle, one of the harder songs up to that point. About halfway through, it stops for a second before launching into heavily distorted Noise Rock and stays that way for the last half of the song.
- Math Rock: There's some distorted math rock style riffs on the lighter songs on the album, like 64 and Stay Hydrated, Fuck Em.
- Noise Rock: The last half of Ginger Ailment. The first half is calmer and almost ambient, but the last half launches into heavy distortion and noise with no warning.
- Non-Appearing Title: All of the songs, except a sample in My Friends Are My Power and the Harsh Vocals ending of Tea And Crumpets.
- Re-release the Song: Stay Hydrated, Fuck Em was released as a demo in June of 2019.
- Sampling:
- 64 samples Super Mario 64, mainly Mario's voice lines and... elevator noises?
- My Friends Are My Power samples a line from when Sora battles Riku in Kingdom Hearts."How will you fight without a weapon?" "I know now, I don't need the keyblade, I got a better weapon. My heart!" [...] "I don't need a weapon, my friends are my power!"
- Both Teens//Candle and Dr. Robot use samples from FLCL, with the latter using the "guitar hit" noise. What would you expect from a band called Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly?
- Shout-Out: Many, throughout the album. Also see Sampling.
- My Friends Are My Power samples a line from Kingdom Hearts and the lyrics talk about "feel[ing] like a Heartless" and asks "will I ever find my keyhole".
- 4th Gen:We're in Sinnoh and I'm fighting Team Galactic again / But you know / It won't be for too long / I'm far too distracted / Yeah / No Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum for me
- Textless Album Cover: Aside from some labels you can barely make out, the cover is completely textless.
