Hot Mulligan and the emo resurgence go together like a checked flannel shirt and beaten-up Vans. Fronting the genre’s uptick, the band’s embracing of twanging, capo-clipped guitars with fast-cutting riffs, and co-vocalists locked in a shouting match between cleans and screams has seen them cultivate the craft to new levels. Now they’re marking their territory as modern scene leaders.
The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still swaths on a thick, glossy coat of production that’s still translucent enough not to mask their bare-knuckled DIY aesthetic. Lurking behind silly song names like ‘It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here’ and ‘Monica Lewinskibidi’ lies brutally honest lyricism on self-existentialism, loneliness, and the consequences of our choices, delivered…

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