Muscadine Bloodline traced their roots earlier this year with their third studio album, Teenage Dixie, and they’re continuing to throw it back.
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The country duo –made up of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton– surprised fans on Monday (June 12) with four new songs, dropping an EP of cover tunes that harken back to the soundtrack of their youth. Crowned Teenage Angst, the release features a handful of nostalgia-inducing emo and pop-punk standards sung in the pair’s trademark country croons.
The duo’s re-imaginings of Yellowcard’s “Only One,” Blink-182’s “Adam’s Song,” “Hear You Me” by Jimmy Eat World, and Mayday Parade’s “Jamie All Over” all grace the EP’s track list for a 4-song trip down memory lane for both fans and Muscadine Bloodline alike.
“One of many things we both had in common was the music we listened to in our teenage years,” the two shared on Instagram. “You kinda stick out like a sore thumb in South Alabama when you’re jamming Blink-182 at a red light and you get some eye rolls from buddies when Hawthorne Heights came on shuffle between Mike Jones and Merle Haggard.
“But, for some of us, this kind of music tapped into an emotion that can be described as angst,” they continued. “Not to mention, music like Mayday Parade and Taking Back Sunday is where we both learned how to sing harmony.”
The band added, “So the next time you think to yourself, ‘Them Muscadine boys SANG them harmonies,’ thank bands like Yellowcard and Jimmy Eat World, deriving from our “Teenage Angst.” We wanted to pay homage to some emo bands we grew up on, except make them ‘us.’”
With their third studio album, the duo takes listeners on a different, yet equally nostalgic, voyage through their past – a trip to their hometown of South Alabama as they illustrate small-town adolescence, the desire to escape, and the pull that a place has once you do. With the new Teenage Angst, fans now have an idea of what they were listening to along the way.
Teenage Angst is out now. Check it out below.
