nothing,nowhere. opens the “Box In The Basement”

American musician-singer-songwriter, nothing,nowhere., aka Joe Mulherin, is back with another raw and emotive single, ‘Box In The Basement" arrives as a sad post-hardcore banger, imbued with the memory, reflection and emotional spirit that has long been its creator’s stock in trade. “Box In The Basement” leans hard into the familiar ache of early post-hardcore and emo sounds from its beginning. It’s like flipping through old scars instead of old photos, every sound and every lyric wrapped in pained poetry.

 

There’s a feeling of looking back not with romanticism but with the ability to sit with it and unpack it and let it hurt when it hurts. Post-hardcore aggression meets emotional openness on this highly-infectious, perfect for summer release. nothing,nowhere. gives the song room to breathe and lets the emotion flow until it bubbles over naturally. It is the sort of song that vibrates even more intensely when heard louder, and the listener stops talking.

The truth is what separates “Box In The Basement.” The song is lived-in and lived-through, as if it had been written at some late-night reckoning with memories that are best left alone but which can’t be ignored under any circumstances. It plays on a collective memories for the emo and post-hardcore eras yet somehow still sounds personal and present.

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