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The Newfound Interest In Connecticut

The Newfound Interest In Connecticut was an early 2000s Canadian midwest emo band that have retrospectively earned much acclaim and respect, for their masterful combination of midwest emo with post-rock on their 2005 LP, “Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home”. The band had humble beginnings as a band playing pop-punk in the style of midwest emo, similarly to e.g. Jimmy Eat World (c.f. esp. “Clarity” (1999)). Already in their first album, there were hints at the post-rock to come, but it was not until their

track on said LP is already a 7-minute post-rock instrumental. Drawing another comparison to “Clarity” here is tempting due to the last track on that album (“Goodbye Sky Harbor”), but the post-rock of The Newfound Interest In Connecticut is vastly different.

The Newfound Interest In Connecticut’s midwest emo/post-rock hybridization not only predates other, more well-known practitioners (e.g. CSTVT and The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die), but it is also more creatively diverse in its sonic textures, and manages to fully evoke the power of the greatest “post-rock” bands and the power of the greatest midwest emo bands within just one album. The title of “Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home” is evocative, as the music itself seems almost frigid and bleak, but nevertheless achieves stirringly emotional textures and climaxes. All of this, combined with the occasionally mathy tendencies of the album (albeit not enough to warrant a math rock label — only as much as is typical of midwest emo), makes it feel like “Spiderland” (1991) if it was written by a midwest emo band that listened a lot to fellow Torontonians Do Make Say Think (esp. considering the experimentation with wind instruments).

According to some hearsay (archived), the origin of the band’s name is an online relationship that one of the band members had with someone in Connecticut.

notes on the distributions

The distributions for “Less Is More Or Less” have been updated with a CD rip from Soulseek, thanks to /u/Ceasing.

The Newfound Interest In Connecticut’s side of the split with Plant The Bomb is also found on “Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home”; the track length from the latter is used in our listing here for the “$4 Split”.

The hidden track at the end of “Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home” is distributed in MP3; the rest is FLAC.

The Newfound Interest In Connecticut discography

title	Less Is More Or Less	[split] $4 Split	Tell Me About The Long Dark Path Home
cover art
other art	CD	B side of cover insert wide shot of components	full cover CD inside of packaging insert reverse side of insert
year	2002	2003	2005
tracklist	1 Used to Count (On Our Hands) 6:05 2 Easier Than Evanescence 5:06 3 Inches for Angels 5:31 4 Every Rose Has Its Thorn 6:57 total duration 23:39	1 The Newfound Interest In Ct. — The Arctic Circle 5:33 2 Plant The Bomb — Death & Taxes ??? 3 Plant The Bomb — The Worthlessness Of Effort ??? total duration ???	1 The Computers Stopped Exchanging Information 7:10 2 And Started Sharing Stories 2:22 3 And Then They Kissed 3:12 4 Okay, You Can Be Tigers but No Crashing 4:41 5 Five Years of Work and We Built That Song 3:08 6 And It Sings for Itself 6:13 7 I Can Hear Your Footsteps Just Outside Camp a Sah, Sah, Sah... 7:51 8 I Can See Your Breath Rising in the Air; 2:48 9 On My Back Watching Northern Lights Recede 5:31 10 The Arctic Circle 5:33 11 [hidden track] 2:46 total duration 51:16
distributions	dspr? format source gratis? URLs yes FLAC @ 44.1kHz & 16bit /u/Ceasing; Soulseek yes [1] [2] [3] yes MP3 @ 320kb/s (CBR) Soulseek yes [1] [2] [3]	None! Do you have one?	dspr? format source gratis? URLs yes FLAC+MP3 @ 211kb/s (VBR) @ 44.1kHz & 16bit Soulseek yes [1] [2] [3]