Soak is the second album from Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly, released August 14, 2020.
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.