''My Very Last Breath'' is the eighth installment in ''

The Emo Diaries ''The Emo Diaries'' is a series of twelve compilation albums released by Deep Elm Records between 1997 and 2011. The series had an open submissions policy and featured mostly acts that were unsigned at the time of the albums' releases. Deep Elm foun ...

'' series of

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s, released July 23, 2002 by

Deep Elm Records Deep Elm Records is an independent record label releasing albums by bands such as Lights & Motion, The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, The White Octave, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. It also released the compilation series ''The Emo Diaries''. Histo ...

. As with all installments in the series, the label had an open submissions policy for bands to submit material for the compilation, and as a result the music does not all fit within the

emo Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of and hardcore punk from the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered b ...

style. As with the rest of the series, ''My Very Last Breath'' features mostly unsigned bands contributing songs that were previously unreleased.

Reception

Reviewer Johnny Loftus of

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remarks that the album "features some of the most melodic and tightly arranged material that the series has seen":

That is the thing about the ''Emo Diaries'', you always have a pretty good idea about what each new page will bring, but that doesn't make it any less exciting to read. There are a few spots that some might view as experimentation overtaking good sense (the sax solo in the Colour Blue's "Of Our Disregard"), but overall, ''My Very Last Breath'' proves that the ''Emo Diaries'' series just keeps getting stronger.

Track listing

References

External links

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