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"Lyrically, [Rites Of Spring] also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, are often considered the first "emo" band, but [the band] itself rejects any association between themselves and emo genres."
Many of the lyrics on the EP read as a "commentary on the area we grew up in," explains guitarist Phil Gioan: feeling the suffocation of the seemingly inevitable fate of a life of mediocrity in rustbelt America.
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"Lyrically, [Rites Of Spring] also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, are often considered the first "emo" band, but [the band] itself rejects any association between themselves and emo genres."