Albums tend to unfold like a cohesive whole, kinda like a movie They just have traits that remind me of why I love BN.

Keep in mind that these bands don’t sound like Brand New, per se. So I figured.might as well recommend the bands that have sort of filled the void for me. Just as it should be! But one thing I’ve noticed is that while I like a lot of the bands recommended here, they seldom fill a Brand New-shaped hole, especially because I’m only interested in bands that sound like later-era BN. Like any tight-knit fanbase, Brand New fans are always telling each other to listen to this band or that band. This 'favorite Brand New albums besides Brand New' thing really got me (and all of us, clearly) thinking. They may not sound like Brand New, but they scratch a similar itch because they all have a certain “greater than the sum of their parts” type of je-ne-sais-quoi like my fav Brand New albums (D&G and Daisy), plus unique musicianship. TL DR: Recommending some albums I rarely see mentioned in the same conversations as Brand New.

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