Algernon Cadwallader: Some Kind Of Cadwallader (pink & green swirl vinyl) [LAUREN RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

Repressed on pink and green swirl vinyl by Lauren Records with Asian Man Records. Stereogum called Algernon Cadwallader the heroes of the emo revival, and this is where it started: ten songs of tangled, off-time guitar and shout-along choruses.

This edition

• Pink and green swirl vinyl
• Repressed by Lauren Records and Asian Man Records

About the album

Peter Helmis, Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony met at Pennsbury High School and named the band after the first mayor of Yardley, Pennsylvania. Their 2006 demo leaned hard into math rock and Midwest emo, but the lyrics went the other way, upbeat musings on everyday life rather than the genre's usual gloom. Shows were mostly Philadelphia basements and house parties when this debut came out in 2008.

The trio toured America and Europe, made the Fun EP and Parrot Flies, then wound things up in 2012, and their reputation only grew while they were away. Reinhart went on to Hop Along and his own Headroom Studios, and in 2022 the band regrouped and hit the road again. Not every band named after a small-town mayor ends up leading a movement, but then not every mayor gets a band this good.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 2, 2026 on Lauren Records (cat# LR74PG), a repress of the 2008 album.