“Sometimes I go to a Guitar Center, see a kid jamming and I’ll start jamming with them. We look at each other and it’s, like, a moment”: Yvette Young-backed emo icons Algernon Cadwallader are back – and as giddy and technically dazzling as ever

Colin Malony and Joe Reinhart of Algernon Cadwallaer.

Trying Not to Have a Thought is emo band Algernon Cadwallader’s first album since 2011, and the first with the original lineup since 2008. The record’s fluid dual-lead lines, laid down by guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony, are reflective of the long path towards completion. And it involved at least one bad trip.

The twitchily grooved, quixotic-noted elasticity of noitanitsarcorP (aka Procrastination) was crafted as most of the band partook in a ketamine experiment – which went off the rails fast.