A new book called "Emo Revival: Community, DIY, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo (2008-2018)" by BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher has just been published, and Consequence has shared an exclusive excerpt with the outlet. The book charts how emo music reinvented itself in the decade after its mainstream commercial peak, moving back to DIY basement and VFW-hall scenes and drawing on bands such as Title Fight, Modern Baseball, Joyce Manor, Touché Amoré and The Hotelier, with dozens of interviews conducted for the project. This matters as a piece of music history documentation, capturing a scene that publisher Clash Books argues never actually died after its early-2010s commercial decline, but simply retreated underground.

The excerpt itself, taken from a chapter titled "Emo Is Holding Us Back", focuses on Title Fight's stylistic shift towards shoegaze on their 2015 album Hyperview and its lead single "Chlorine", following earlier hints of the sound on Floral Green. Circa Survive's Anthony Green, who toured with Title Fight in 2014, recalls being struck by the minimalist, direct approach behind the transition. Sacher situates this within a longer emo tradition of bands drifting away from the genre's core sound, citing precedents including Sunny Day Real Estate, Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, Saves the Day, Thursday, Thrice, Brand New, The Early November, Alexisonfire and Straylight Run, noting such artistic left-turns often risked alienating fans commercially.