EQUIPMENT

With whiplash-inducing guitar hooks and sing-along passages mirroring the volatile subject matter, Equipment is a band that shifts the spotlight toward the power-pop facet of the modern emo genre. Vulnerability can be found in full, yet is often shaded by gallows humor and danceable choruses. The Toledo, Ohio quartet have become known as veterans of the DIY music scene, striving to challenge the medium, play with listener expectations, and champion radical optimism.