The band followed up this release with another EP in 2018 titled Doing The Most. Idle Empire eventually fizzled out, Heagy and Doherty later reuniting to form Origami Angel and releasing their debut EP titled Quiet Hours via Chatterbot Records. The duo met in late 2015, when, after a show at Archie Edwards' Barbershop in Washington, D.C., Heagy and a friend asked Doherty to join their band Idle Empire, to which he accepted.
Somewhere City is an invigorating place to spend a half hour, but Origami Angel would be wise to explore the darkness on the edge of town.Origami Angel is an American rock band from Washington D.C., consisting of singer and guitarist Ryland Heagy and drummer Pat Doherty. Did you know that you’re special just the way you are? Did you ever wish every song on Bleed American had the message of “The Middle”? There’s no doubting Origami Angel’s sincerity, but its tendency to immediately reframe any uglier emotions undercuts their conceptual ambitions and makes the “I Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral”-style montage that recaps the nine previous songs feel a bit unearned. Are you feeling sad and alone? Origami Angel will be there for you with chicken nuggets and a shoulder to cry on. But after decades of being dismissed as strictly a vehicle for solipsistic, suburban angst, emo in 2010s has swung in the opposite direction, and Somewhere City’s relentless positivity can exert an uncomfortable peer pressure on the listener to conflate great intentions with art itself. If Somewhere City finds itself unable to bridge a generation gap, it’s not due to any of its musical qualities-for anyone over the age of 30, they can be heard as celebration rockers taking the baton or beer from Japandroids or Fang Island. The production is cleaner and brighter compared to May’s four-track EP Gen 3, but the hyperspeed approach actually has the effect of downplaying the impressive sophistication and complexity of Somewhere City’s musicality. Origami Angel never let up for more than five seconds, save for the twinkly arpeggios that serve as Somewhere City’s introductory scene setting (and even “Welcome To…” ends in gratuitously overdubbed gang vocals). They’re one of those duos that sounds bigger than two people through hyperactivity-the tapping runs, Drop-D dissonance, power chord sequences and handclaps of “Doctor Whomst” are held together by sheer momentum, a quality that does more to keep Somewhere City coherent rather than its conceptual underpinning. In Somewhere City, “watching Danny Phantom, eating Happy Meals” is encouraged as a form of self-actualization, people expose their raw feelings without judgment, and if things get awkward, there’s always a sympathetic “whoa” or “woo!” waiting from your new best friends. They were undeniably fun, but Somewhere City gives them a newfound sense of purpose.
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They released entire EPs themed around Pokemon, full of strident skate-punk vocals and tapping runs they’d be more than happy to map out on Guitar Hero. Ryland Heagy and Pat Doherty emerged from a void created in 2016 by Modern Baseball’s newfound desire to transcend the Philly party emo they once perfected as well as the cancellation of one-time next big thing JANK-all of a sudden, there was a wave of bands fluent in memes, math rock, the lingua franca of therapeutic self-empowerment, and community building.Īmong this group, Origami Angel’s chops and brand stewardship immediately stood out.
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