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Malcolm Dome

“Refusing to revel in his own chaos, he proves it’s possible to turn even short compositions into suites”: The emo pioneer who suddenly went prog

Quincy, MA - August 19: Jeremy Enigk, of Sunny Day Real Estate, performs during the first day of the In Between Days Festival at the Veterans Memorial Stadium. (Photo by Vincent Alban/The Boston Globe via Getty Images).

Finding himself at a forced turning point in his life, Sunny Day Real Estate vocalist Jeremy Enigk embraced the challenge of crisis and, in 1996, released his debut solo album Return Of The Frog Queen. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an impressively progressive work, as we explained in 2018.

It’s somewhat surprising to regard Return Of The Frog Queen as a progressive album, because it comes from a man who built his reputation in Sunny Day Real Estate – pioneers of the emo movement in the early 90s.

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