noisy upancomers

there's a wonderful genre emerging that as far as i don't know doesn't have a name yet.

it's based in noisy, fast, cluttered, loud overblown vaguely-pop songs by desperate-sounding youths, singing about simple joys and existential terrors. there's parallels to grunge, in its punk-borne, diy feel, struggle-laden sentiment, and textured guitars. but its different; its faster, noisier and less defeated, its the music of kids trying to fight off problems so big they can't be sung about, just sung at, and sing at them we will. and the guitars are a ramshackle soapbox racer to grunge's rusty station wagon, with a driver shouting as he flies by that there's no time to stop, that we have to rock harder and faster just to stay ahead of thinking, over the clatter of wheels threatening to fly off sparking into underbrush.

grunge said 'yeah kids, life sucks, might as well quit'. this music says 'yeah life's horrifying and amazing, but maybe we can win at it'. its somehow hyper-modern, like punk ok computer.

grunge was quitting music, this is fighting music.

or at least running music.

for reference:
japandroids (young hearts spark fire)
the pains of being young at heart
(come saturday / young adult friction)
no age (cappo / teen creeps / everybody's down)
jay reatard
(always wanting more / blood visions / oh its such a shame)
vivian girls (lake house / wild eyes)
wavves (beach demon / so bored)
deerhunter (nothing ever happened / never stops)
and in retrospect, in their own synthy way:
m83 (don't save us from the flames / teen angst)

maybe I can call it post-grunge.

if you say it just a little ironically, that's just about perfect.