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Anyone who also ever wondered how hardcore pioneer Ian MacKaye will make such a drastic changeover from your gritty, explosive, and terse music of Small Threat towards the expansive, melodic, and unpredictable audio of Fugazi will get the solution in Embrace. Along with Privileges of Planting season (fronted by Fugazi …

Among the less celebrated rings around the Dischord label, Ignition mainly offered D.C.-design emocore from the post-Fugazi/Rites of Spring/Dag Unpleasant variety. Vocalist Alec MacKaye — sibling of Fugazi’s Ian, and previously from the Untouchables as well as the Trust — reteamed with ex-Faith bandmate Chris Bald, right now on guitar …

Regardless of their limited lifespan and discography, the Beliefs were a seminal influence on the first emocore motion in Washington, D.C. To begin with, almost all of their account shifted to either Embrace or Rites of Springtime, by most accounts the initial true emo rings. But even throughout their lifetime, …