We thought we knew Seeyouspacecowboy by now. Since debuting in 2019, the San Diego darlings have been a raw yet melodic collective, straddling the barriers between screamo, mathcore and post-hardcore. But new album Coup De Grâce opens with a minute of swooning sax and twinkling piano. From the get-go, all bets are off here.
It becomes an aptly different-sounding start, though, when you consider how much change there’s been within the SYSC camp over the past couple of years. Horrifically, singer and co-founder Connie Sgarbossa attempted suicide after finishing the quintet’s previous album, 2021’s The Romance Of Affliction, but has since abandoned recreational drugs. In turn, her lyrics have transformed from explorations of personal strife to fantasies about dancing your problems away as the world ends.
