WHY? - "This Blackest Purse"

It's not that this new WHY? song is necessarily emo, and I don't mean to use the term as a value judgment, but "The Blackest Purse" does include the phrase "earnest hands," the sentence "still sporting my ex-girlfriend's dead ex-boyfriend's boxers," and cups it all in a plaintive recital piano with backup harmonies -- "Mom, am I failing?" -- redolent of Mineral (a band Yoni Wolf would find a way to rhyme with "intimate decibel"). The slow-growing, balladic sing-song is from the Bay Area crew'...

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