The Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I

D.C. natives The Dismemberment Plan are off the major label conveyor belt and back to the comfy confines of DeSoto alongside like-minded artists like Burning Airlines and Juno. I wonder if Interscope Records is smart enough to be kicking themselves for letting these guys go, ’cause the Dismemberment Plan have made a masterpiece that the kids will be talking about and garage bands imitating for years to come. Now get ready — I’m gonna gush because I’m embarrassed I didn’t put this on my top 10 list and because they deserve it. Blending emo, post-rock, new wave, and stop-start pop, the Dismemberment Plan offer up a staggering variety of tunes — no two sounding the same or even really sharing the same lyric mood. Instrumentally, these guys play like their instruments are on fire making you believe in them.