#Brave little abacus vinyl full#

In only five years, The Brave Little Abacus developed into an unsung force, and it all started with a demo.

#Brave little abacus vinyl full#

The Brave Little Abacus are gone for good, and what they left us, a demo, a split, two full lengths, and an EP forms one of the most compelling discographies of the 21st century.

However, TBLA’s post-breakup following remains small it’s much more intimate than the popularity fellow emo band American Football has enjoyed recently, and it’s not likely to result in a reunion or comeback record. Since their demise in 2012, The Brave Little Abacus has since been discovered by many internet music listeners hungry for fresh, genre defying content. But outside of the fact that both bands are from New England, and have a keyboard player, there really isn’t any way to compare TBLA to The World Is… or any other band for that matter – they occupy a space all to themselves. Combining mathy, sporadic, and unorthodox music ripe with complex song structures and a distinctive use of keyboard, TBLA filled a niche that The World Is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die would later capitalize on. Creating some of the most challenging, intimate, and delightful music ever put to tape for half a decade somehow wasn’t enough – the band never broke out of their local New England scene, and sadly released their last record and played their last show in 2012. Self-releasing almost all of their music, playing in legion halls, and forming slightly ahead of the emo revival scene, TBLA were mostly overlooked and underappreciated during their time.

What The Brave Little Abacus is not, however, is well known. They were eclectic, energetic, experimental, odd, off putting, and above all else, they were remarkable. The Brave Little Abacus is hard to pin down.