Transit is a Boston-based quintet that, on their latest EP Stay Home, makes me want to do just that and stay home listening to these six songs all night. These songs are filled with unabashedly passionate emotional hardcore that’s got (for good measure) one foot still in the pop punk pool. The guitars are technical without being the least bit mathy and Transit also shows off some awesome vocal interplay courtesy of their three vocalists. Stay Home is ever on point and even the token acoustic number that closes the EP doesn’t seem cliche and/or unnecessary (which is itself an amazing feat). I hadn’t been familiar with Transit prior to this, but Stay Home hits like a punch to the face and has made me damn sure that I’ll be chomping at the bit for a full-length. RIYL: Crime In Stereo, Small Towns Burn A Little Slower, (maybe) Polar Bear Club, etc…
MP3:
Transit - Nameless (Songs To Static)
Transit - Atlas
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Thanks for this one, dude. Love the gang vox and unconventional song structures!
[...] Credit to CYSTSFTS for this one. This EP ticks all the right boxes- gang vocals, competent lyrics, good influences. The band have earned comparisons to Polar Bear Club, but the similarity is mostly in terms of technically unconventional song structures. This is firmly a pop-punk record, and a good one at that- even if it has enough hardcore and emo tinges to ensure that the band’s audience could increase massively. Stay Home is solid throughout, although “Nameless” is particularly excellent. On regular rotation at chez Mike- check out a couple of tracks here. [...]