The Newfound Interest in Connecticut - I Can Hear Your Footsteps Just Outside Camp - a Sah, Sah, Sah... [2005]

The Newfound Interest In Connecticut were a five-piece midwest emo band from Toronto that quietly released one stellar album, Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home, in 2005 and then split up. Falling in line with the dozens of other 00s artists that opted for increasingly lengthier titles, there is a passionate flair throughout the record evidenced by its intensity, which occasionally verges on sloppiness but only to the songs' merit. In a genre where the voice of the vocalist can often make or break a band's sound, The Newfound Interest In Connecticut were fortunate to find a fitting one in Matt King. By skillfully blending emo with post-rock and post-hardcore trends of the time they manage to render their instrumentals much more technical and interesting than was popular while drawing comparisons to another beloved one-album wonder of the genre, American Football.