As mentioned, Austin emo band Drunk Uncle are gearing up to release their debut album Look Up on March 11 via Count Your Lucky Stars (pre-order), and we're premiering third single "Punch." This one's on the clean, post-rock/slowcore side of emo, and it reminds me at various points of American Football, EndSerenading-era Mineral, and Formlessness-era TWIABP. If you like any or all of those bands, I think you'll like this too; Drunk Uncle may wear their influences on their sleeves, but they do it exceptionally well.

"I honestly doubted its place on the LP for a while," guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Tyler Miller tells us. "It conveys a weakness that seemed unbecoming of the rough-n-rowdy Drunk Uncle of [2020 debut EP] Fiction Years. But as the writing process unfolded—the emergence of the meandering It’s-A-Long-Drive-esque riff, Peyton’s guttural vocals, Jake’s/Will’s thundering drum/bass—it was clear 'Punch' was just another side of the same band. And the LP provided the space and time to journey to this low, shadowy place and back again."